From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 14 18:59:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA04017 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04006 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA22085; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:59:21 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: "Michael A. Endsley" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD is full w/o X In-Reply-To: <199704142208.OAA25333@home.corecom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > I now have BSD running on my 2nd HD but here is the problem: > My HD is 420 megs and is solely BSD. It is 99% full w/o X!! > I do have emacs running now (thanks Doug), popclient and 2 > email prgs (pine and elm). I used the novice install and d/led very > little else. Is there something else that comes with the novice install > that takes so much room? > Is that normal storage for BSD? > If not, and now that I know how to set everything up, perhaps I should > start all over again and be more careful!?? > Thanks, > Mike I don't know about 2.2.1, but for a while I had 2.1.6 running on a 100 MB partition. let's see; 24MB swap. the rest mounted on / (didn't have space to seperate like I should) bin, manpages, doc, info, games. XFree86 3.2; had the base plus the 100 dpi fonts and the font server. granted, by the time I was done I had about 800 K free, but I don't see that you'd have too much trouble with 420 megs. What all did you install, distribution-wise? > ---------------------------------------------------------- > THIS MACHINE IS POWERED WITH OS/2 WARP and FreeBSD 2.2.1 ^^^^^^^^^ There's your problem ;) > me@corecom.net > http://www.corecom.net/endsley/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*