Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Subject: Re: BSD for a 386 Message-ID: <1992Nov9.202315.3341@sci34hub.sci.com> Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al. References: <1992Nov8.203738.16802@netcom.com> <1992Nov9.004009.27330@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:23:15 GMT Lines: 20 In article <1992Nov9.004009.27330@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: >Charles E Newman (newman@netcom.com) wrote: >: versions tipically take 120 megs of disk space. At least that is what it takes >: on a VAX >With 60Mbyte you can have all the usual BSD distribution + XFree86 + xview. This is with the *binaries only*; this will *not* hold the sources or etc01 distributions. Any prospects of applying patches is gone. I'm using a 68MB drive, and only selectively extracting things from etc01. Maybe with an RLL controller and a second drive.... -- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither. "...I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down, then I thought 'One of us is in real trouble'." Davey Allison, re: a 150MPH crash