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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:22:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert N Watson)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on an Altos 386
Message-ID:  <199510132222.PAA09125@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <8kTcYrO00YUtAAdUc9@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Robert N Watson" at Oct 13, 95 11:43:51 am

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> Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 12-Oct-95 Re:
> FreeBSD on an Altos 386 Julian Elischer@ref.tfs. (1024*)
> 
> 
> > >     370 MB SCSI Hard Drive
> 
Sorry I looked up and THOUGHT I saw a 60MB disk
I didn't notice the 370MB

370MB is as you say  plenty..

> 
> > > Is this possible ???
> > I would expect it to work..
> > the disk will be very tight.
> > you'll only be able to instal a 'minimal system'
> 
> Am I misreading something in his original email?  370mb should be plenty
> for whatever he wants to do, as long as he's not running an ftp site or
> web server or something.  I run some very happy systems off of 250 meg
> partitions..  Maybe I missed something about partitioning on his system?
> 
> I was under the impression that 15 megs was the minimal install binary
> stuff, making the min really around 50 megs or something?
> 
> 
> ----
>     Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
>           http://www.watson.org/	robert@fledge.watson.org
> 




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