From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 12:08:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA04652 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-e2a-service.gnn.com (mail-e2a-service.gnn.com [204.148.102.169]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04582 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from www-19-60.gnn.com. (www-19-60.gnn.com [205.188.19.60]) by mail-e2a-service.gnn.com (8.7.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA24113; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:07:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603072007.PAA24113@mail-e2a-service.gnn.com> X-Mailer: GNNmessenger 1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:07:33 From: Raj Chetty To: angio@aros.net Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:32:16 -0700 (MST) >From: Dave Andersen >To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de >cc: RChetty@gnn.com, questions@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD > >Lo and behold, J Wunsch once said: >> >> As Raj Chetty wrote: >> >> > 1. If 48meg is not enough, will 70 meg do for a decent installation >> > to use X11,C++ compiler. I will not be using any networking >> > software or internet access. That has to wait until I get a >> > second disk drive. Also I will be the only user(a Newbie to >> > unix). >> >> 70 meg is still tight, but possible. However, you have to hand-tweak >> it, by: >> >> . Installing the base system only -- this should fit >> . Remove all parts you don't need, this will be an immense amount >> of work. I have no idea how much you might gain by killing all > > I haven't killed the network stuff, but I got a system (w/out X) >tweaked down a bit to run on an 80mb drive. After I started nuking >things, I realized it would be a good idea to keep a list of what I >deleted so I could re-create the system when I chose. It's a partial >list, but it should get you started. It leaves the networking stuff in >-- I'm using it as a router -- and there's probably a bunch o' stuff I >deleted without putting in there, but you're welcome to it as a starting >point. > > -Dave Andersen > >-- >angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and > business-oriented >system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) >http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ > "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'." > Thanks for the help. I decided to wait for a new disk. Chetty