From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 20:43:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F257516A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:43:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1356E43D48 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:43:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from www.hedron.org (localhost.hedron.org [127.0.0.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CB2C12C for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:43:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from 216.220.59.169 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ean); by www.hedron.org with HTTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:43:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1036.216.220.59.169.1110314631.squirrel@216.220.59.169> In-Reply-To: <20050308190700.GC30165@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050308190411.69669.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com> <20050308190700.GC30165@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:43:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Ean Kingston" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:43:40 -0000 > 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? It is to some degree. The floppy installer requires 2 1.44MB floppies and performs a network install. See the handbook for more details on this. The base system, fully installed is around 250MB. This does not include source, ports, or X11 (the GUI). You can trim that down quite a bit by removing development tools, examples, man pages, ... BUT I don't know of any documentation on exactly how to do it. A typical desktop install is going to use between 2 and 8 GB depending on what you install. It can also get much bigger (again depending on what you want installed). I personally have had a 4.x system running as a firewall on a single 540MB hard drive. It included proxies for e-mail, http, and dns (inbound and outbound) as well as local logging of ipfw and natd. I stripped the base OS down to about 80MB on that system. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/