Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:49:27 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "modF" <modf@home.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HD Space requirements? Message-ID: <002f01c06a51$046cac60$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <14912.21184.405216.874768@guru.mired.org>
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FWIW, I've built a few (command line) gateway systems with geriatric 386's / 120Mb hard drives / FreeBSD 3.2. Space is fairly tight but there's enough for cucipop & apache .... never been able to do it with 4.x though ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> To: "modF" <modf@home.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:33 PM Subject: Re: HD Space requirements? > modF <modf@home.com> types: > > Greetings, > > I have been searching the site and the FAQ's for information on a > > "typical" installation. My question is what is the recommended space > > requirement for BSD? I have an OLD (P133) sitting here collecting > > dust, all of the hardware is supported from the list. But I can not find > > anything about a space requirement. I have a few drives sitting around, 1.2 > > gig, 500 meg, and a few 2gig drives, so there is a bit of junk variety. > > The problem is that "typical" is pretty much a meaningless > term. Typical all-in-one network server? Typical developer desktop? Typical > end-user desktop? Typical web server? Etc. > > You can install a usable system on 500Meg. 1.2 gig will be ok for a > for an end user workstation, or a "developer" workstation installation > so you can look over the sources and play with a compiler. That might > be a little tight if you want to do develop your own stuff on the > system, though. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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