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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!usc!venice!gumby.dsd.trw.com!deneva!cjohnson From: cjohnson@venice.sedd.trw.com (Clarence Johnson) Subject: Re: X space requirements Message-ID: <2AC34E00.5D4F@deneva.sdd.trw.com> Sender: news@deneva.sdd.trw.com Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 local 2 PL4 References: <86LV02pE23fj01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 17:35:59 GMT Lines: 41 gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes: : In article <19usidINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net : (Bernard Steiner) writes: : > 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 ? : : I have a list of files to create a 'base' X11 system for 386BSD. It's around : 5M. Probably like the Linux implementation, you do not get much. This base : system just has the server and xterms - but it runs. Add the other programs : as you need them and have disk space. : : The same type of 'base' system can be determined for the O/S itself too. But : I do not know what that list of files would be. : -- : Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a : | great idea hits you, and just before you realize : | what is wrong with it. Can You post this list or mail it to me. I'm short on disk space also but would like to run X. Clarence Johnson Trw Inc. johnson@venice.sedd.trw.com