Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:38:16 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: Chris Hodapp <hodapp87@usa.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disk space requirements Message-ID: <20010107143816.A845@junior.kasby> In-Reply-To: <20010107074132.27949.qmail@www0h.netaddress.usa.net>; from hodapp87@usa.net on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:41:32AM -0700 References: <20010107074132.27949.qmail@www0h.netaddress.usa.net>
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:41:32AM -0700, Chris Hodapp wrote: > What are the disk space requirements for the FreeBSD operating system? I > was unable to find that on the website. I was wondering if it would run on a > 486\33 MHz with 12 MB RAM, on a 200 MB or smaller partition. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > end of the original message I once installed FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a 486 DX2-50 with 12 MB RAM and 211MB IDE disk. If you want to use your 486 for NAT/IPFW, DNS etc. it will do the work quite well. The problem is the disk space: if you want to install XFree86, netscape, emacs, ghostscript/gv to use your 486 as a home pc then you'll need much more space. To give you an idea, on this workstation I have the following packages: XFree86-3.3.6_4 XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3 Xaw3d-1.5 apache_fp-1.3.14 autoconf-2.13 automake-1.4 bash-2.04 boehm-gc-5.0a4 bzip2-1.0.1 cvsup-bin-16.1 docbook-1.2 docbook-241 docbook-3.0 docbook-3.1 docbook-4.0 docbook-4.1 docproj-1.1 dsssl-docbook-modular-1.60_1 emacs-20.7 fetchmail-5.6.1 gettext-0.10.35 ghostscript-6.01_1 glib-1.2.8 gmake-3.79.1 gtk-1.2.8 gv-3.5.8 html-4.01 icewm-1.0.4_1 imlib-1.9.8.1 iso8879-1986 ispell-3.1.20c jade-1.2.1 jpeg-6b libslang-1.4.2 libtool-1.3.4_1 libungif-4.1.0b1 linux-jdk-1.2.2 linux_base-6.1 linuxdoc-1.1 m4-1.4 mkcatalog-1.1 mod_php-4.0.4 mpeg_play-2.4 mutt-1.2.5 netscape-navigator-4.76 netscape-remote-1.0 netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07 patch-2.5 png-1.0.8_1 popt-1.5 postgresql-7.0.3 procmail-3.15 qiv-1.5 qmail-1.03 rpm-3.0.6_4 serialmail-0.75 sgmlformat-1.7 tidy-20000804 tiff-3.5.5 ucspi-tcp-0.88 unix2dos-1.2 unzip-5.41 vilearn-1.0 w3m-0.1.11.p.23 xfstt-1.1_1 xpm-3.4k These packages plus the source of the system take up: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 48M 24M 21M 53% / /dev/wd0s1e 1.8G 1020M 711M 59% /usr procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc That is 5 times the capacity of your disk. Hope this helps. Francesco Casadei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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