From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 17: 0:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA57537B407 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:00:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6193443F75 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3388F1FC9B; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:59:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:59:54 -0500 X-Epoch: 1044752394 X-Sasl-enc: 6XWpIqCVom7PfH2dThhZ1A Received: from localhost (dialup-67.28.79.181.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.28.79.181]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792741DD8F; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:59:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:59:52 -0500 From: Jud To: dark dragonz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question Message-Id: <20030208195952.76a1bfff.judmarc@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030208190233.51355.qmail@web20705.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030208190233.51355.qmail@web20705.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:02:33 -0800 (PST) dark dragonz wrote: > how many space the FULL FreeBSD installation can > take?(with all the packages) > thank you for your answer There are likely more accurate or helpful measures, but a rough estimate would be slightly more than a Windows 2000 installation. (I run Windows 2000 but not XP. In the likely event that XP takes more space than Windows 2000, then I'd say you should plan on about as much space as XP.) If you haven't used Win XP or 2000, then I'd say you should plan on 1GB minimum, and you'd be happier with 2. "With all the packages" actually doesn't make much sense, as you'll see if you try FreeBSD. During (and after) installation you can select from literally thousands of different applications. Many of these will have nothing to do with your system or what you want to do. For instance, there is a huge collection of different programming languages to choose from - but what if you don't program in these languages, or aren't a programmer at all? Then you can easily choose not to install them. 1GB of disk space should leave you room to install the base system and some applications like the X server (think of it as the video system) and window manager or desktop environment like Gnome or KDE (though Gnome or KDE might be large enough to push the total beyond 1GB). As I said, you'd be happier with 2GB, and more than 2GB will leave you more room in the future to install new applications, download music, or whatever you like. In other words, if you have 1.5-2GB, you have enough, and if you have more, use it. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message