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From: tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops?
Date: 21 Nov 1996 09:28:11 -0500
Organization: TCP/IP development
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In-reply-to: AJ Musgrove's message of 20 Nov 1996 16:21:08 GMT
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In article <56vb5k$k8j@news1.iamerica.net> AJ Musgrove <musgrove@xavier.varmm.com> writes:

> I have a IBM ThinkPad 486/DX 50mhz, 8M RAM, 170M hard disk, and an Active
> Matrix monitor. Yes, I realize the HD is small, but I was thinking of a
> minimum installation.
> 
> Does this sound possible? Also, it would be nice to have the base
> development tools and the X package, but I really think i might be pushing
> the limits there. Any thoughts?
> 
A quick check of my system shows me using 125M with base, X, and the
kernel source tree. If you plan on running X, you'll do some swapping
with only 8M. I only added emacs and a few other small apps...
however it quickly grows...
Regards,
-- 
Tom Evans 
tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com
Disclaimer: My views are my own, your mileage might vary, taxes are extra, etc