Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:50:41 -0700 From: Chameleon <swen@wavefire.com> To: so@server.i-clue.de, Piotr Chudykowski <CHUDPI@mail.snc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how large? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000628084650.036a1290@mail.wavefire.com> In-Reply-To: <395A1831.D2661897@i-clue.de> References: <395A06D9.B961EE1C@mail.snc.edu>
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At 05:22 PM 6/28/00 +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: >The FreeBSD 3.4 box claims 340 MB for a full development system. I >wouldn't go under 800 MB -- you need room for the pieces to develop, >too, and some breathing space never hurts. i have a 3.4 box that's running just fine on a 486/33 with a 500MB drive. but the 3 gig drive i have in my other box is much nicer to play with. You can get away with a small drive: ~300MB if you don't do much development on it and you don't keep the ports on it... but if you can... more is always nicer Swen >Just my $.05 >-Christoph Sold > >Piotr Chudykowski wrote: > > > > hi, > > I'm considering installing FreeBSD on one of my older machines, but it > > have a rather small hard drive. How much space do I need to load the > > kernel + basic packet of applications including development and > > networking apps? I won't be running X on it. I couldn't find that > > information on your website. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------------------------------------------- Red ship crashes into blue ship - sailors marooned. --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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