From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 1 5:59:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [208.200.134.24] (chicago.reveregroup.com [208.200.134.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8703B37B43C for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 05:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael_Gruver/The_Revere_Group@reveregroup.com) Received: from no.name.available by [208.200.134.24] via smtpd (for hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 1 Jun 2001 12:58:58 UT Subject: Re: Hard Disk sizes/suggestions (Desktop w/ IDE drives) To: ellismc@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: Michael_Gruver/The_Revere_Group@reveregroup.com Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:57:39 -0400 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on MAIN/The Revere Group(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 06/01/2001 07:59:12 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael, I think the question to you is: What do you plan to do with FreeBSD? If you are going to use it as a gateway server for your cable modem or DSL service, you don't need much more than a P90, 40mb of memory, and 3GB of disk space. (that is all I am using and it runs great). If you want to use Gnome or KDE you will need more. I have a workstation running Gnome (I am running afterstep as well) and I required a decent video card, a P266, 64mb of memory (probobaly would run better with 128) and a lot more disk space (I have only 6gb). That is because you will undoubtely want to run some applications under gnome that will require disk space and if they are Graphical more memory. I really could use more memory for Quake but don't have it. So, there you are. Just my $.02 Mike Any recommended minimum/maximum hard disk sizes to install FreeBSD on? (Alone or maybe dual boot). 8GB to small? Is 30 or 40GB a waste for normal desktop use or good choice for a dual boot system? I am planning a install using an AMD K6-2/350 system with 128MB of ram. Should I go to 256MB of ram? I have reconfigured Outlook Express and hope it now proper formats. Thank for the information! Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message