From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 23: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA13C37B696 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from gimpy (hutch-132.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.32]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id BAA26315; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:05:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <002101bfa9c5$bff948a0$625662d1@gimpy.visi.com> From: "jpaetzel" To: "Jeremy DAWSON" Cc: "FBSD-questions" Subject: Re: disk space Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:08:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy DAWSON To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:26 AM Subject: disk space > >How much disk space is required to put FreeBSD on my system? > >(Does the handbook mention this - I couldn't find the information there). > >Thanks, > >Jeremy Dawson I'm pretty sure its in the handbook....but to give you the easy answer, it depends. I have an old 486 with a minimal install of 2.1.5 on a 80 meg hard drive with room to spare. No X windows though. I've got 3.4 on a newer machine and I installed everything off the CD onto a 2 gig drive and I have some room to spare. (Of course spending too much time drooling on the ports took care of that) If I remember correctly you can get X windows and the kernel sources and plenty of treats into 400 megs. I just fired through the handbook and didn't see the answer to your question. I know it's in the installing and running FreeBSD book I have by Greg Lehey, but its too late to find that. Hope that helps you out. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message