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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Christopher Stephensen wrote:

> 	I am considering running FreeBSD on my system and am curious to
> know how much disk space will be required.  I realise that this may be a
> difficult question to answer, but a rough figure for a minimum FreeBSD
> system with XFree86 will give me an idea.

For a decent system with space leftover for your own stuff, you'll want
200mb. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major