From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 19:35:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F24316A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:35:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from usw2.natel.net (2b.bz [209.152.117.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5DBC43D2D for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:35:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: (qmail 27289 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2005 19:35:49 -0000 Received: from batv-01-029.dialup.netins.net (HELO Htebazile.US-Webmasters.com) (216.248.109.30) by us-webmasters.com with SMTP; 10 Mar 2005 19:35:49 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20050310132810.14b61570@209.152.117.178> X-Sender: wd@209.152.117.178 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:35:42 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "W. D." In-Reply-To: <20050310183835.1455.qmail@web52910.mail.yahoo.com> References: <6667> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: Mark Goodell Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:35:53 -0000 At 12:38 3/10/2005, Mark Goodell wrote: >THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: > >(Actually, I went back and forth through the website >literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave >up. It may be that the question itself treads on an >issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS >installations. I'm frustrated that they have to be so >big. THank you again for responding. FreeBSD has >great logical appeal to me, notwithstanding.) >Mark >Mark Goodell >Richmond, VA =20 >> > >>Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in >> terms >> > >>of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run >> > >>applications and (2) the typical installation.=20 >> How >> > >>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. =20 At the bottom of this page is the recommended sizing: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html However, you can get a version of FreeBSD to run from=20 a single floppy disk: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html There are various versions in between these sizes: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ A Google search: http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22FreeBSD-Small%22+site%3AMail-Archive.com To subscribe to the 'FreeBSD-Small' list: mailto:freebsd-small-subscribe@freebsd.org HTH Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/