Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:59:47 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: Edwin Gustafson <Gus@Economics.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query / Laptop Install Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990315165947.008f51a0@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <v04003a02b31312f5bb6f@[192.168.1.2]> References: <000801be6f0c$f76a92c0$a69f143e@a010431761>
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At 15:20 15-03-1999 -0500, Edwin Gustafson wrote: >My solution was to just reinstall the system, which may not be convenient >if you're installing from floppies, as Larry aparently is. If anyone can >enighten me about how to gauge how much disk space a package will require >before installing it, I'd be grateful. There does not seem to be an easy way of determining it beforehand. One thing that can help is to go to the ftp site (or study the CD ROM if you have one) and see how many files are in the directory for whatever distribution you want to install. Those files always start with the .aa extension, then go to .ab, .ac, etc, all the way to a theoretical .zz. Although this will not tell you exactly how much disk space you need, you can estimate that if there are twice as many files in one distribution directory as in another one, that distribution will require *roughly* twice as much disk space. Another thing you can do (with a new install) is to install just the "minimum" installation which will give you nothing but the binaries. When it is done, choose to install additional packages one at a time. That way at least you know exactly what you have installed. I wish I did it that way. I went for "all" and eight-nine hours later I lost carrier. Now I do not know which packages are installed and which are not. (I did it overnight, so I was not sitting at computer taking notes.) Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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