From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 12:23:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13822 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from keywest.ird.rl.af.mil (KEYWEST.IRD.RL.AF.MIL [128.132.193.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA13811 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by keywest.ird.rl.af.mil with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BCAE46.56BF4290@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:24:38 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Goeringer, Michael" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FW: FreeBSD Questions (small disks) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:24:36 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- From: Ron Steele[SMTP:ron@dc.infi.net] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 1997 3:20 PM To: Goeringer, Michael Subject: Re: FreeBSD Questions (small disks) Goeringer, Michael wrote: > > Go to www.freebsd.org and all your questions will be answered :-) > > Michael G. > > ---------- > From: Kevin Fernandez[SMTP:diamond@comm.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 1997 2:08 PM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: FreeBSD Questions > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD on a 486SX from diskettes which I > copied from your ftp site and I have a few questions. > > 1) I'm attempting to use a very small hard drive (41 mb), is this > too small for the OS? If so, what is the recommended amount of space? Personally, I'd forget it. I installed an earlier (read smaller) version of FreeBSD on a system with a 40MB system drive and an 80MB /usr drive. It was really ugly. We used it for a comms server. There wasn't really any space for user accounts. Even at this we were constantly running out of swap. I would recommend 200MB with 32MB swap as the absolute minimum. If you want X, make that 500MB and 40MB swap for a single user, more swap for more users. Note that when you get above some minimum configuration, things improve dramatically. It just takes are certain amount of resources for the OS and a few apps, after that it's gravy. Ron