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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: X space requirements
Date: 25 Sep 1992 11:18:37 GMT
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In article <Bv2K61.5ow@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.) writes:
> In reading through the documentation for X386, ~61M of diskspace is
> needed for the binaries.
> 
> In reading the documentation for X11 for Linux ~5.5M needed for
> the base system -- 21M for full system.
> 
> This is not Linux advocacy, I would like to run X but I only have ~32M free.

Okay, 386bsd does not yet have shlib support.
However, I don't see the point in this discussion.

What do you want - a complete system or something that fits in your disk
space ?

Just a thought
	Bernard
repeat of minimum disk space for kernel src + X 80 Mb
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