Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 08:25:47 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Minimal Install vs User Install on na 486 Message-ID: <XFMail.981121082547.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <36561C92.9C726E04@aei.ca>
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On 21-Nov-98 Malartre wrote: > Hi all, I finaly got that school project! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! Way to go ;) > http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/lada.html > It's in french but you can read that I called it "The Lada Porject" :-) > I have requested a 486, 400 mo of space and 32 meg of ram. Lada Project? Ye referring to the cars? > I don't know how much space/ram the school will give me for now. I will > set it has a server. It will do various function: e-mail, http, ftp, > telnet(eventually ssh, when I will take the time to learn it). It won't > have a screen/keyboard after the first install. Hmmm... OK, could be done... > 1) How big is the minimal install? I did go through /stand/sysinstall on > this system and in the FAQ/Handbook, but I didn't find info on how big > it was. View this, my / is 256 MB and its capacity is 9% ;) /usr is near 2 GB due to cvsup and packages and is at 40 % So I guess ye can go a long way with 400 MB. Problem being only when ye will start to proxy the thing... > 2) How big is the User Install 40 MB? I'm taking a wild guess here. > 3) Would the minimal install do all the job I want? Well, the sources and packages are the biggest problem regarding space. So I would say that binaries only would suffice to do all ye need to do. > 4) What's not in the minimal install? Sources, X... > 5) Would PicoBSD be faster? I can mount a swap partition. picoBSD differs only from FreeBSD in that it's kernel and binaries are crunched. And in some of the set-up (for now at least). > Also, they have a lot of 486 who are in a closed room and who do > nothing. I'm sure that's waiting for another project :-) OMG, he's on a rampage ;) > Maybe a distributed system? Could be, but with what gain? I would go for a proxy/firewall first ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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