From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 20:08:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00128 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:08:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lemieux.hockey.net (lemieux.hockey.net [209.98.94.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29999 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net) Received: from localhost (orpheus@localhost) by lemieux.hockey.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA04757; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:14:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:14:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey Dunitz To: Adrian cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970820090749.0068e444@opera.iinet.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Adrian wrote: > Could you install FreeBSD with XWindows easily in a 500 meg partition? That's way more than plenty. You can have a running system with sources for some of it in less than 200 megs. A half gig partition leaves you room for more sources or a very large home directory. If you wanted to go extra-lean, you can fit the base system with a minimal install of X (the server, the basic programs like xterm, xedit, xclock, xclipboard, etc) in about 100 megs or maybe less than that. I've done a minimal install of FreeBSD with no X, which was around 45-50 megs, and a minimal install of Linux with X, compilers, and kernel sources, which was about 90 megs. I'd have to think that FreeBSD would be similar. > > Also, what software can you use to create a partition without losing > everything on your disk? > some people have used FIPS to do this. it's thought to be safe, but since changing partitions is always dicey business, be sure to back up--there is a small chance that something weird could happen. Read the FIPS documentation before proceeding. I've never used it, so I really don't know anything about it other than it exists, people use it, and I've never heard anyone complain that it trashed their disk. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | Current Job: | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | Information Services | Iowa City, IA http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | Cray Research/SGI | (319) 339-8268 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message