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Date:      Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:21:36 -0500
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Goodell <goodell70@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Size of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <422E0950.4010400@p6m7g8.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050308190700.GC30165@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20050308190411.69669.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com> <20050308190700.GC30165@hub.freebsd.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:04:11AM -0800, Mark Goodell wrote:
>  
>
>>Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in terms
>>of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run
>>applications and (2) the typical installation.  How
>>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example.  
>>    
>>
>
>Isn't this information available on the website?
>
>Kris
>
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Hi,

This is either in the webpage or in the docs, but I forget where.

Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a stripped down version
in about 76MB.  I think the last time I tried sometime around 5.0 to do 
this it was up to about 90MB



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