From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 19:58:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8DFF616A41F for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:58:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kael.fischer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178C943D48 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:58:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kael.fischer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so714440nzo for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:58:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=HyPCTBLRx3CgeI85AUgasoRA1mE/8GlxjSStwIVU6LzJwRyvk7BX/v6TIdJXWgBFIVc0buOWbTBtLKtq1n0wMRQPJUFyUVIu87BmAq1jxQOCGMSfsMWwx1Da3TCurCH1MnGTO4Mk4/rbd7qZy/1bs3KZV5cwrtrc4a4z0qKhrlE= Received: by 10.36.196.12 with SMTP id t12mr2774266nzf; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.50.7 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:58:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:58:33 -0800 From: Kael Fischer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: canned distribution's i86 disk space requirements? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kael@sonic.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:58:34 -0000 Hi all: I am curious as to the disk space requirements of the various "canned distribution sets" on i86 hardware. While the following excerpt from the Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html= ) was accurate back in the day (I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.X), it doesn't seem to have much relationship to the "Minimal" canned distributions in 6.0-Release. It certainly seems that X has grown larger than the 100 MB suggested. > A minimal installation of FreeBSD takes as little as 100 MB of disk > space. However, that is a very minimal install, leaving almost no > space for your own files. A more realistic minimum is 250 MB without > a graphical environment, and 350 MB or more if you want a graphical > user interface. If you intend to install a lot of third party software as > well, then you will need more space. Does anyone know how much space Minimal, User and X-User take to install? This would be excellent information to have available for the user and sysinstall itself. What would be almost too much to hope for, would be some error checking where the diskspace requirements of the selected packages are compared to the requested partitioning scheme before the commit. It was a dream I had once... The current failure mode is inelegant. [this is not a flame about sysinstall... i find it easy to use, most of the time, and it has improved over the years.] If someone knows the answer, let's get it into the handbook. Or perhaps someone has hooks for sysinstall/dist.h and dist.c that can pull out the tar file names (e.g. base.am,...) for various sets? I imagine that a basic understanding of the install process would be all that is really needed to figure out what files are used for what sets. -- Kael Fischer, Ph.D DeRisi Lab - Univ. Of California San Francisco