From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 19:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B4B37B417 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.149.34]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011212035230.HNY20994.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:52:30 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fBC3iHW06231; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:44:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001701c182c0$69b20290$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Steve Gatt" , References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 Binary Installation - Disk Space Required Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:52:23 -0500 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 I don't think FreeBSD 2.1.5 supports the Realtek PCI NICs. (2.1.5 is quite old.) I would suggest obtaining anything from the 4.x series, which will work quite happily on the machine you describe. The back of my FreeBSD 4.3 CD set indicates 100 MB for a binary-only system. X will set you back by at least another 150 MB or so, depending on your choice of window manager. -- Matt Emmerton > Hello, > > I could not find the answer to my question elsewhere, so I have turned to > you for help. > > I have FreeBSD version 2.1.5, which I wish to install on an Intel Pentium > machine (details below), and I would like to know how much hard disk space I > should allot. On the back of the CD box is written 60 MB for a binary only > system, which will be what I want, but does that include the X windowing > system? I will not be installing any applications or doing any development > for now. If you could tell me how much space I will need for the binary > system, including X Window, swap space and any more room I need just to have > a smoothly operating system, I would be glad. > > Here are more specific details of my system: > Intel Pentium CPU at 100 Mhz > Motherboard with Intel Chipset (Don't know the brand) > 16 MB Main Memory > 2.16 GB Samsung HDD (IDE) > S3 Trio 64 V+ ( /64 /32) 86C765 Graphics Card (Surf brand, I believe), > with 2 MB memory > Realtek RTL8029AS 86017T1 (10 or 100/10 Mbps switching, I am not sure) PCI > Ethernet Card (Will be connected via UTP cable to a 3COM Superstack II hub, > to which Windows 95, 98 and 2000 systems are also connected) > > Thank you, > Steve > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message