From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 13:39:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C74B37B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dsl092-099-212.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.99.212]) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAULmPK03055 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:48:26 -0600 Received: from chexmix by localhost with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 169wNY-0004gi-00 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:43:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:43:32 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: newbie laptop question Message-ID: <20011130174332.A18020@burningclown.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i From: Glenn Becker Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All, I've been ... er, diddling with an installation of FreeBSD 4.3 for a little while now. Have much more experience with Debian Linux, which I have on the same machine, but I very much like what I have found in FreeBSD. So I hope to advance beyond the diddle stage soon. ANYhoo, I have an older laptop, a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT, and have been thinking of removing the Win98 install and replacing it with FreeBSD. The issue: the HD is only 2gig. Is that enough space for a decent FreeBSD install? How much space should I look for if I get a replacement for the HD on this laptop? BTW the one FreeBSD/laptop compatibility page I've looked at makes it sounds as though this is a good match for the OS. If anyone has any specific experience with this model I'd love to hear about it. Thanks, Glenn Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message