From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 16:33:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673BD37B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (usr1984-bh2.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.239.216]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA14210; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:33:19 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <013601c0dcce$3ed516e0$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Erik Trulsson" Cc: 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> Subject: Re: Read command timeout Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:33:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message