From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 11 11:54:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09895 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09889 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA17343; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 18:54:10 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:54:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Timothy J. Luoma" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1st try @ FreeBSD install.... In-Reply-To: <199706110354.XAA09316@kira.peak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > I've got a cable modem, can I install FreeBSD over the internet? (I've got > the boot floppy, but I am not sure how it will find the connection -- yes I > have all the IP information, etc). It's working under NeXTStep right now.... Your cable modem connects to the computer via ethernet, right? As long as the ethernet card is supported (read, damn near anything) it should work fine. > Now the real question: how much diskspace do I really need? The 2.1.7 CDs > say 340 MB, but then again, I think they still clain Win95 will run under 8MB Looking at a recent install, it has 28M used in the / filesystem and 320M in /usr. That's with kernel source and XFree86 installed. Subtracting the 110M I have in my home directory looks like 238M total for a failry complete installation. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82