Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:40:34 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimal Install vs User Install on na 486 Message-ID: <36570922.56E2387E@aei.ca> References: <XFMail.981121082547.asmodai@wxs.nl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > 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>; Yup, the Lada car. It will be cheap like the reputation of that car ;-) Ok, so if I use the "minimal" install, I guess I won't have the source so I simply cvsup it if I wan't to makeworld? I don't really want to makeworld on a 486, but if I need to upgrade :-) Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?36570922.56E2387E>