Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:40:09 -0400 From: Hakim Singhji <hzs202@gmail.com> To: talk@lists.nycbug.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC Message-ID: <c13c36a405070711401b5897ce@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi All, I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing environment for application development. What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. Again... how can I get the most out of x11/xorg with out using a great deal of resources? Best, --=20 Hakim Singhji hzs202@nyu.edu "Where danger is, grows the saving power also" (qtd. in Heidegger 28).
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