From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 8:53:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dbitech.bc.ca (i.caniserv.com [139.142.95.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77DC537BCB6 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swen@wavefire.com) Received: (qmail 14651 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2000 15:53:44 -0000 Received: from swen.wavefire.com (139.142.167.220) by 139.142.95.81 with SMTP; 28 Jun 2000 15:53:44 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000628084650.036a1290@mail.wavefire.com> X-Sender: swen@mail.wavefire.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:50:41 -0700 To: so@server.i-clue.de, Piotr Chudykowski From: Chameleon Subject: Re: how large? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <395A1831.D2661897@i-clue.de> References: <395A06D9.B961EE1C@mail.snc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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