From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 22:20:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA05211 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA05206 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:20:22 -0800 (PST) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA26667; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 01:19:57 -0500 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA25112; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 01:21:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 01:21:19 -0500 (EST) To: stephens cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install questions... In-Reply-To: <2F64024C.57D7@iclc.net> 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 Mon, 13 Mar 1995, stephens wrote: > 2) How much hard drive space do I need to run the system? Can > I just use 500 megs, or will the system be downgraded too much, > and if I can, what would you suggest for values to set the /root > and other filesystems at? Well... It runs well-enough on my 75MB hd space I gave (leaving a total of 5MB for DOS). Of course, there are no XWindows... > 3) Are there any FAQs out that answer questions on FreeBSD, and > if so where? http://www.freebsd.org is the best source of information. > 4) Can I get updates/programs on the internet for it? Yup. ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/freebsd (or something like that) has the much-nicer-than-FreeBSD-2.0 release, FreeBSD 2.1-Release. You'll want to install that instead of the 2.0 one you have. --