From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 3 7:13:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at (miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at [137.208.3.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F64437B409 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from h9400395@miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at) Received: from localhost (h9400395@localhost) by miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA466648emf h9400395@miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:13:33 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:13:33 +0200 (MES) From: Nikolaus Hiebaum To: Christoph Sold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minmum installation In-Reply-To: <3B41C37F.CD385AA5@i-clue.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Christoph Sold wrote: > > How do I achieve a minumum installtion not exceeding 100MB HDD space > > *including* X-Windows? Which "packages" do I need to choose? > > Having a 100MB X system is almost impossible. I'd recommend at least > 64MB RAM for any X Server, and at least double that number for swap > space. That's 128MB swap, without any binary. Buy another small disk. > Disk space is cheap. I have a 486, 8 MB RAM, 250 MB HDD Notebook. I managed to do an installation occupying around 70% of my HDD. Unfortunately, FreeBSD does not have a nifty de-installation manager for packages I added. Thus, how can I conventiently de-install anything I don't like anymore? CU L8er, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message