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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!ais.net!europa.clark.net!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!munchkin.cnde.iastate.edu!tracy From: tracy@munchkin.cnde.iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco White) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Netbsd in ZIP Date: 18 May 1997 19:19:44 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5lnkog$tif$1@news.iastate.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970502075553.18767B-100000@next1> <01bc6349$8a8ba020$fee093cf@worldnet.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: munchkin.cnde.iastate.edu X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test52 (20 Jan 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5971 J.C. Archambeau <n-xiv@worldnet.att.net> wrote: }York Block <yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu> wrote: }> Hi, I am totally new here......I would like too install netbsd on my Zip }> disk an use it with my mac LCIII. Can I do that?? }Yes, you could. But it will be a very tight fit. A full install of *BSD }is on the order of over 500 Mb. }You'd have to cannibalize the installation to the minimal. Another hard }disk or a Nomai MCD 540, Iomega Jaz or SyJet would be in order if you need }to install *BSD on removable media. Is it really that much larger on a mac than it is on the i386 port? We obviously have different definitions of a "full" install. I just finished a complete install of NetBSD/i386 on machine with no need for source or X. (This is still what I consider a "full" install.) I have a /usr of 53MB, and a / of 12MB (with three kernels about 1MB in size each). Granted, there isn't a lot of space left with only 96MB on a zip disk, and needing a swap partition, but it does give a working system for us in under 100 MB. The only thing from the standard install I removed was /usr/games. Even on the pmax port, it doesn't take that much room. / is 20MB, and /usr is 88MB. As far as I know, pmax is the largest working port (that could be wrong, of course, I don't have experience with all the ports.) Getting rid of /usr/games and /usr/share/games would gain me about 8MB... with sufficient pruning I could fit a pmax system on a zip disk, with no/little room for swap, however. Obviously there isn't enough room for a full install of NetBSD/pmax on a zip disk, including swap space, but neither pmax or i386 require 500MB. If you include source in a full install, of course it won't fit on a zip disk, I believe source alone is over 130MB, and object files will definitely push that up. Installation on a zip disk won't give him much room to play, but I would be surprised if it isn't possible (I believe a couple of people have NetBSD installed on a zip disk on Mac, after all). -- Tracy J. Di Marco White tracy@iastate.edu "Actually this is a common misconception...I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities." --Dean Engelhardt