From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 22:12:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF74D37B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA49411; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:04:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:04:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Glenn Becker Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: newbie laptop question In-Reply-To: <20011130174332.A18020@burningclown.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: > > 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? Two gigabytes is enough for everything--linux binary support, ports, X Window System, and full source. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message