From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 31 14:32:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818CD37B400 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FB943E65 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey@snowpoint.com) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:49 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.170]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.4.2) with SMTP id HUB36795; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:27:16 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: Daniel Suh Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:29:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: minimum hd requirements Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3D70D2CD.11432.39AC46C7@localhost> In-reply-to: <3D6D31E4.80903@sympatico.ca> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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