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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 10:13:31 -0700
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jim Power wrote:
> 
> > 5.How many disk space is recommended for running a FULL version
> > FreeBSD and many application?
> 
> And all the source code, so you can rebuilt the system and the kernel
> at will?  And the ports collection, so you can easily get and install
> new programs?  X Window System, Star Office, Emacs? Maybe 1.5 Gb.
> 
>         Annelise

I have a machine on which I try 
do regular "make world"s 
and on which I have tried to build all the ports from scratch.

I ran out of disk space..
I have 3.5 GB on it..
that's a LOT of software.. I only got about half way through the ports

julian