From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 14:52:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02614 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02470 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) Received: from vagner.com (ginger.kf7nn.com [192.168.0.4]) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04975; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:50:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) Message-ID: <35DC9A33.A0EB670C@vagner.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:50:43 -0500 From: George Vagner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Godfrey CC: Adrian , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XWindows Size & Creating Paritions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had freebsd installed with xwindows on a 200M laptop and 17M swap with just enough room to install netscape but had to move some stuff around to different partitions to be able to untar netscape and install. I used the mininial installation from floppies and then just copied the xserver files over via ftp. Jason Godfrey wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Adrian wrote: > > > Could you install FreeBSD with XWindows easily in a 500 meg partition? > > Not sure on this one. The XWindows installation on my system takes up 76 > megs (not couting KDE - a cool window manager). It can probably be done, > but I think you might be tight on space for extra programs like netscape, > etc. > > Anyone know for sure? > > > > > Also, what software can you use to create a partition without losing > > everything on your disk? > > > > fips will take an existsing partition and split it into 2. fips can be > found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dist/fips11.zip > > Be sure to read the documentation that comes with it. It contains > important information like the fact you have to defragment your disk > before you use it. > > -- Jason > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jason Godfrey godfreja@acm.cs.uwec.edu > FreeBSD - The power to serve > > 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