Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:42:29 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: pgollucci@p6m7g8.com (Philip M. Gollucci) Cc: Mark Goodell <goodell70@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200503082042.j28KgUv17252@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <422E0950.4010400@p6m7g8.com> from "Philip M. Gollucci" at Mar 08, 2005 03:21:36 PM
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> > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:04:11AM -0800, Mark Goodell wrote: > > > >>Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in terms > >>of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run > >>applications and (2) the typical installation. How > >>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. > > > >Isn't this information available on the website? > > > >Kris > > > Hi, > > This is either in the webpage or in the docs, but I forget where. > > Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a stripped down version > in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried sometime around 5.0 to do > this it was up to about 90MB That's a really stripped down installation though. Between all binaries, plus source, plus ports tree and X and KDE I probably use around 1.2 Gigabyte for "typical" install. Install a few ports (Apache, MySQL, PHP, browser, etc) and a medium database and it can easily use a couple of Gigabytes. Add media files (sound, video) and the sky is the limit. ////jerry > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Philip M. Gollucci > Senior Developer - Liquidity Services Inc. > Phone: 202.467.6868 x 268 > E-Mail: pgollucci@liquidation.com > Web: http://www.liquidation.com >
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