From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 15:23:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA15033 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:23:21 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA15022 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:23:18 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA09125; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:22:59 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510132222.PAA09125@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Altos 386 To: rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert N Watson) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <8kTcYrO00YUtAAdUc9@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Robert N Watson" at Oct 13, 95 11:43:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1011 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 12-Oct-95 Re: > FreeBSD on an Altos 386 Julian Elischer@ref.tfs. (1024*) > > > > > 370 MB SCSI Hard Drive > Sorry I looked up and THOUGHT I saw a 60MB disk I didn't notice the 370MB 370MB is as you say plenty.. > > > > Is this possible ??? > > I would expect it to work.. > > the disk will be very tight. > > you'll only be able to instal a 'minimal system' > > Am I misreading something in his original email? 370mb should be plenty > for whatever he wants to do, as long as he's not running an ftp site or > web server or something. I run some very happy systems off of 250 meg > partitions.. Maybe I missed something about partitioning on his system? > > I was under the impression that 15 megs was the minimal install binary > stuff, making the min really around 50 megs or something? > > > ---- > Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS > http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org >