Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:56:50 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> To: "Eric Schuele" <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: free bsd <root4freebsd@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum requirements Message-ID: <d5eb95fc0610101156g2f97765dn5502b2da82263dbf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <452AA231.8060007@computer.org> References: <20061009170012.5685.qmail@web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <452AA231.8060007@computer.org>
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On 10/9/06, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> wrote: > On 10/09/06 12:00, free bsd wrote: > > Thank you everyone for responding to my initial question. > > > > In hindsight I realize I worded my original inquiry inaccurately. What I am attempting to determine is how well or if ver 6.1 will work on a 4GB hard drive with a Pentium 4 - 3.06GHz cpu and 1GB ram? The machine has a 232GB hard drive but I have another 4GB drive sitting around being unused that I was thinking of adding to the machine to configure in a dual boot setup with the 4GB drive being totally allocated to FreeBSD. > > Well, as everyone has stated... It depends on what you are doing with > the machine. > > I have a 512MB USB device running 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg, Fluxbox, nessus, > nmap, firefox, and a few other tidbits (no ports tree). Its darn slow > off USB, but it works. So yeah, 4GB is sufficient... for some amount of > functionality. > > If *I* wanted to use a machine, say for a desktop, I'd want no less than > 20GB. I have a 20GB disk for a machine, yet I ran out of space while > trying to set it up the way I wanted. I had most things setup, then > tried to compile OO. I fell back to the package though. > > Either way, everyones point is... It depends. But I think most would > say to have a truly useful Desktop, 4GB is a bit slim. My vote... 20GB+ > > HTH. > > > > > However, before attempting that task I am trying to determine whether or not it would be even feasible to use a 4GB drive to install v 6.1 or should I use a larger drive to install the many of FreeBSD's features? And if a larger drive how large of a drive would I need to utilize many or any of its features without limiting myself to a bare bones setup? Additionally, if the 4GB drive will work how limited would the install/capabilities/features be? > > > > I am not at all opposed to using a larger drive but at the present time do not have a clue as to what size drive I should use for the most flexibility regarding type of installation options. > > > > -art > > > > I didn't see it mentioned (may have missed it), I just wanted to point out one thing. There is a bit of a speed difference between a 4gig drive and a 200gig drive. If you are using a 3gig CPU, it would be a shame to have such a huge bottleneck with the hard drive.
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