From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 00:52:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA10910 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA10838 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:52:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA14952; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:51:04 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23702; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:51:00 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA04984; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:50:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603050850.JAA04984@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD To: RChetty@gnn.com (Raj Chetty) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:50:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603050556.AAA11587@gnn-2.gnn.com> from "Raj Chetty" at Mar 4, 96 09:56:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Raj Chetty wrote: > 1. If 48meg is not enough, will 70 meg do for a decent installation > to use X11,C++ compiler. I will not be using any networking > software or internet access. That has to wait until I get a > second disk drive. Also I will be the only user(a Newbie to > unix). 70 meg is still tight, but possible. However, you have to hand-tweak it, by: . Installing the base system only -- this should fit . Remove all parts you don't need, this will be an immense amount of work. I have no idea how much you might gain by killing all network-related stuff. It is part of the base distribution (hey, you don't have to buy it as an additional package -- so that's the price, you always get it). . Manually install the base parts of X11. I've been using a 120 MB disk once in my notebook, and a hand-fiddled installation contained: . the base system . the `development' system, including all header files and shared libs (static libs removed manually) . the `catted' man pages, including the development system . a useable X11 subsystem, again including header files, shared libs, and cat man pages . emacs :), though only .elc files where both .el and .elc were available . kernel source, including one set of object files . 12 MB of swap . 5 MB of free space > 2. Does FreeBSD support any parallel port (printer port) tape drive like Hp-Colorado 1000e? No. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)