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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:19:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Robert D. Keys" <bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
To:        peter@sweda.com.hk (Peter Kok)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hard disk space
Message-ID:  <199808201319.JAA05818@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35DBC7E4.47C221F8@sweda.com.hk> from Peter Kok at "Aug 20, 98 02:53:25 pm"

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> Hello
> 
> My hard disk has 240M only
> 
> do u think it is suitable to install freebsd (x windows)?

It should be if you are careful about what you load up.
I would probably only load bin, manpages, and X, with maybe doc.
Use a 32M root, a 32M swap, 16M for var, and the rest for usr.
Once you see how the machine runs and what space you have left,
then load up extras to suit.  Run the machine command line, except
for when you need to run X, and it should probably be OK for a
webscraper machine.  If you want to run compiles, opt for another
disk to put the user home files on.  Disks 500M and smaller are
pretty common in surplus for almost nothing.  Even 100M more for
the user home file system is going to give you a fair amount of
play space.

Good Luck....

RDK


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