Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:20:19 -0500 From: Edwin Gustafson <Gus@Economics.net> To: "lyons" <lyons@telia.com>, jcostain@ebci.ca Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query / Laptop Install Message-ID: <v04003a02b31312f5bb6f@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <000801be6f0c$f76a92c0$a69f143e@a010431761>
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Greetings, FWIW, I've had good results with FreeBSD 2.2.8 installed on a 486-class laptop. It's a nice system: 20MB RAM, 500MB HD, CD-ROM drive, Adaptec SCSI adapter, 3Com ethernet adapter. In order to shoehorn the entire installation into the 250MB of hard disk space I could dedicate to FreeBSD, I elected not to install XFree86, emacs, or any source code. The result is a simple but very functional machine for prototyping web applications. BTW, I learned the part about not installing extra packages the hard way: I tried to install something which filled up the /usr partition halfway through the installation process. Deleting the package didn't seem to work very well. I guess the package was left in a sort of half-installed state. 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. ----- Edwin Gustafson Gus@Economics.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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