From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 18:56:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 0B17116A415 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6262E43D49 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:56:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so512054nzn for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:56:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UazjoVZGyIbH3zNuaVOYG0pwNA5reDA2z/u/Z56+NnR5uvFOXHmM3kmrcbJSl0UzkpO8q9JxxwDaATBTjn/mOSp1u9KPMWZ+FQQnJLaHwnji7UF1tH8BlHyMntLoAhAsLW5kZgOTmcjc+KI77gHb4v+q0id+vyIxSs8cwnzTgxg= Received: by 10.65.35.6 with SMTP id n6mr5966501qbj; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.52.11 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:56:50 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "Eric Schuele" In-Reply-To: <452AA231.8060007@computer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061009170012.5685.qmail@web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <452AA231.8060007@computer.org> Cc: free bsd , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:56:53 -0000 On 10/9/06, Eric Schuele 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.