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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC Message-ID: <1994Jan17.171912.22252@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff References: <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca> <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 17:19:10 +0000 Lines: 43 In article <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes: >In article <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca>, >Boris Ivanovic <bivanovi@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> wrote: >> >> I have a 386/25 with a 80 MB hard drive. It seems to me that this system >>is too lowsy to use 386BSD. Am I correct? >>I have the whole system, and unless I did something wrong, full expansion >>is 60MB... >> >> > >This is based on the assumption you want a full install. > >Looks like you might run into 2 problems. First, and most obvious is disk >space. 80MB is lean if not enough. Even if you did manage a full install with >swap space you would have little room for allpication software and expansion >(like XFree86, emacs, etc). > >The 3 most active packages out there right now are FreeBSD, NetBSD, and >Linux. If disk space is a concern Linux seems to be a favorite. I do not >know how deeply integrated the NetBSD shared libraries are at the current time >but they could make them a close second. FreeBSD with no shared libraries at >the current release makes it the largest ... for now. FreeBSD will have shared libraries in its next release -around March 1st. They've been in current for quite a while and work very well. > >If you DO want to install 386BSD regardless of its current status, you are >about right on target for disk space consumption (altough I am not sure if >this includes the 'etc' distribution or not which is rather large). > >So, if 60MB can be done: > >80MB (base)-60(System Software)-8(10% file system size)-8(swap) = 4MB ^^^^^^ This could be significantly less with shared libs. Can't say exactly because my box has a lot of extra stuff lying around on it so it's not easy to measure the savings. -- Paul Richards, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@UK.AC.CARDIFF