From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 19:53:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A0A37B56A for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 19:53:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from josh (hutch-621.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.149]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA06940; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:53:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <005401b42881$e9d21ec0$33cefea9@josh> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Dutch Collins" Cc: "Yevhen Miroshnychenko" , References: Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 21:53:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dutch Collins" To: "Josh Paetzel" Cc: "Yevhen Miroshnychenko" ; Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 10:39 AM Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD > > On Sat, 13 Jan 1990, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 10:57:42 -0600 > > From: Josh Paetzel > > To: Yevhen Miroshnychenko , > > questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Yevhen Miroshnychenko > > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:08 AM > > Subject: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD > > > > > > Hello! > > > > I have a computer with i486SX ,18MB RAM and 170MB HDD. Is it possible to install FreeBSD with > > X-Window on such a system and ecpect a "normal" work at lest with Netscape? > > I have tried to install via FTP the latest version with default settings for harddrive,but it appears that there is not enough space for X-Window with this configuration. May be I have to use much earlier versions of FreeBSD ? I looked through the FAQ but there are no direct recommendations about which version to choose in case you have an old system. > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you soon. > > Yevhen Miroshnychenko > > > > I think you are in one of those areas where doing what you want to do might be theoretically possible, but probably would require a lot of tweaking to get it to work. The avalilability of cheap hardware makes it unlikely that too many people have tried to do what you want to do. (For example, I bought a 15gig drive the other day for $99.99) Considering that it might take 6 or 7 (or more) tries to get your system installed in that 170 meg drive (if it is possible at all) you might be able to find a larger drive (another 300-400megs would be just fine.) > > > > Josh > > > I would not try it. You will not get "normal" anything. I did a 3.2-R > install from CD to a 500m disk on a 486dx2/100 32meg of ram. I was not > happy with x with KDE. I think using KDE was a bad idea on that > machine. Personally I would do a minium size install without x on a > 170meg drive. But, there are small footprint o/s, picobsd I think. > I definitely agree about the performance issue. A 486sx with 18 megs of ram is going to be painful with X....I installed X with KDE on a Pentium 75 with 40 megs of ram just to see what it would be like and it is not pretty. Just running X and no other applications digs the machine into 10-15 megs of swap. Josh > -d > -- > > > > > 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