Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 03:10:57 +0000 From: "Steve Gatt" <stevegatt@hotmail.com> To: jan@caustic.org, matt@gsicomp.on.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 Installation - Disk Space Message-ID: <F119WPO2duPQOODwLKa000019b7@hotmail.com>
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Hello, First I would like to thank both of you for your prompt reply. I am still unsure as to what I should do. My main purpose in setting up this machine (P100 16MB 2GB) is to have an experimental computer which I can use to try things out and to have the computer be useful before it really goes obsolete. I do wish to have a working Unix system for now, and although the FreeBSD 2.1.5 is from August 1996, I had the CD pack brought to me and never installed it since then (pity). I have a couple of Linux distributions from 1996 and Suse Linux from 1999, but I would like to try out the BSD. I was afraid that a more modern version would need even more disk area. The computer I use daily has a larger disk which I am not using fully, but it has many files I would like to go over or save somewhere (CD) that are taking up space, and it will be some time before I can free up that space. Yes, five years is a long development time, and I would want to install the latest version, but I want to also install and give my primary effort to Windows NT Server 4.0 (yes, another old OS) since it is still widely used and forms the basis for 2000, and still have Windows 95 for general purpose use. Too much in too little space, but I have no other hardware to spare, but that might change in a few months. I wonder if I should wait until then, then set up FreeBSD 4.x. So I gather I would have to add up the 200 MB for / and the 200 for /var which makes about 450 MB with swap. Less than 1GB but more than I wish to give up. I have looked in Hardware.txt, but found no mention of my hardware. Yes, I guess using those outdated software is scary. I also have a 3Com Combo 10 Mbps NIC (UTP, BNC & AUI) but it's not easy to find now, and I don't know the exact hardware. So version 4.3 would need 250 MB for binaries and X, 50 for swap, and some room to grow. And this should not be much different for any 4.x I would think, all of which should run fine on a 16MB P100 as you point out. So the 340 MB stated on the back of the 2.1.5 CD pack for a development system, which must be the binaries, X, and GCC, plus 48 or so swap, plus a bit of growth room, looks like the minimum any way I look at it and that looks like 400+ MB. So I am thinking that I should install FreeBSD in another system, or see if I can replace the disk in this system or add another one. (Mind boggling how much code programmers are able to generate, and keep track of.) Steve _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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