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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC Message-ID: <hastyCJtDIG.7BE@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca> <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2hfuj1$huf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 07:15:52 GMT Lines: 47 In article <2hfuj1$huf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >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) May I ask why is not recommended to have a very small installation of FreeBSD;specially, if we have shared libraries? Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X