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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC
Date: 18 Jan 1994 06:11:45 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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References: <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca> <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Jim Pitts <pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu> wrote:
>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.

Huh?  FreeBSD has had shared libraries in it's -current release same as
NetBSD.

FYI - I installed ALL of FreeBSD with ALL of XFree86 2.0 shared on a 105
MB partition which contained a 15MB root, 16MB swap, the rest user and
I've got about 14MB free on /usr and 6MB free on root.  I haven't deleted
one thing, so I suspect if we wanted to lose the compiler and libraries and
man pages and other stuff we could fit it pretty easily into an 80MB
drive w/out even breaking a sweat.  I was able to get X into 45MB (including
swap) back in the pre-shared lib days with a very early version of FreeBSD,
so it's doable.  (But not recommeended)


Nate

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