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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 00:33:08 +0100
From:      "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>
To:        "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Read command timeout
Message-ID:  <013601c0dcce$3ed516e0$0200a8c0@mark2>
References:  <008901c0dc47$3ff84d80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <076e01c0dc66$6dc006d0$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010514135419.A27981@student.uu.se> <000b01c0dcc9$bc9459b0$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010515012247.A40683@student.uu.se>

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> > How big is a bare bones installation, out of interest?

> As to how big a barebone installation is , well that depends on just
> how barebone you want it :-) Also are you interested in how much it is
> to download or how much hdd-space is required?

Download - HDD space is plentiful :+)

Basically, as bare bones as possible, I just want to know if it works. Then I'll probably
acquire the CD image somehow to get the rest....that, or wait until either the 686B
problem is fixed, or I get a PCI IDE controller to replace it.

> You can easily fit a fairly complete FreeBSD installation in 150 MB.
> This includes most things except the sources and X-windows plus a few
> ports. If you don't care about things like documentation or man-pages or
> games you could probably fit it into 100 MB.
> Download size would probably be a bit below half of that since the
> downloaded files are compressed.

Not too bad i guess...anyone know how the installer will cope with a dropped dial up
connection half way through the install? Freeserve (UK) automatically kicks me off their
dialup every 2 hours regardless (a very annoying habit sometimes)...ah well, I suppose you
can't complain, it's still the cheapest 24x7 internet access around these backward parts.
Bring on DSL.

Mark


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