From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 14:22: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36EA14D3F for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA50499; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:22:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:22:02 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001092222.XAA50499@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is probably wasting you valuable time.... X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <85anki$2ar3$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Borris Yeltsin wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > I recently bought the book, UNIX: Unleashed which is a 1000 page, = > hardback manual of UNIX it includes a CD with FreeBSD on it. I have 2 = > computers one an AMD 266 Voodoo 3 high-spec machine the other an Intel = > P100, 8Meg RAM, 800 MB HD with no CD drive. I was wondering if you could = > help me with a problem I am having. > First can I run FreeBSD and the attached X Window system? FreeBSD itself will run, although the fact that you have only 8 Mbyte of RAM will slow it down. I'd recommend that you upgrade the memory. The X Window system will definitely be _no_ fun with 8 Mbytes only. For Voodoo3 support, you'd need a fairly recent version of XFree86. > If no then don't read on. > I have transferred the installation files to the laptop via a parallel = > cable to the laptop HD and created a boot disk. The installation program = > ran but said I didn't have enough drive space (I have only 200MB free). = > What do you recommend? format and the making of a totally UNIX system, = > the clearing o disk space (is it worth it?) or download the new version = > of FreeBSD. 200 Mbyte should be enough for a very minimal installation, but it's probably not enough if you also want XFree86. Making more space available is probably a good idea. Whether downloading a new version of FreeBSD is worth it, I don't know. It depends on the version which you already have (you forgot to mention it). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message