Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:29:33 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com> To: Daniel Suh <daniel.suh@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum hd requirements Message-ID: <3D70D2CD.11432.39AC46C7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3D6D31E4.80903@sympatico.ca>
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On 28 Aug 2002, at 16:26, Daniel Suh wrote: > Stanislav Ovcharenko wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I have an old PII-266 machine that I want to use as a > > terminal to access Win XP machine with VNC. I am short > > on hard disk space however, all I have is an old 1 GB > > hard disk. I was wondering if that would be enough to > > load an older FreeBSD release. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > > http://finance.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > Hi. > > From what I know, you should be able to accomplish this with old FBSD. > Not the recent one, though. Their requirements are much more demanding. > Any FBSD version less than or equal to 4.0 stable could do this. > This is way off- I have FreeBSD 4.6.2 running on a 486 DX2/66 with a 540~ MB hard drive. %df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 98M 37M 53M 41% / /dev/ad0s1f 266M 112M 133M 46% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 49M 3.2M 42M 7% /var mfs:20 94M 4.0K 87M 0% /tmp procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc % It's a fairly minimalist configuration running a firewall and such, and I don't have the sources installed, nor the ports. When I need to install or build a kernel/world, I do the actual builds on another machine and install via NFS. There are other ways of accomplishing this; the only reason I use NFS is to speed up the process of building. A 486 takes about 4 hours to build the kernel and a buildworld is something I'd never even attempt on it. That said, a 1GB drive is plenty for a standalone box and could even do a buildworld, but you'd have to keep an eye on the size of your source and ports trees. > Mark this word: "Do absolute minimal install and restrict your install > with only the ones you absolutely need to run VNC" Well, I'd agree there. No reason to burden a machine with more than it needs. But a PII-266 with 1GB drive is plenty big enough to run FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE, with room to spare. Just don't install every port on the planet. Regards, Corey Snow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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