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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Xfree86 Question
In-Reply-To: simmons@ittc.wec.com's message of 3 May 93 11:24:06 GMT
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 05:07:03 GMT

>>>>> In article <457@ittc.wec.com>, simmons@ittc.wec.com (Garry Simmons) writes:
Garry> I'm just getting into 386BSD and have a simple question. I'm ready to reformat
Garry> my hard drive so that I can load up 386BSD and would like to know how much
Garry> disk space to allow for Xfree86? I only have the 10 floppy 0.2 distribution
Garry> at the moment, but will order Xree86 as soon as I'm sure 386BSD is happy on
Garry> my PC... I figure 0.2 will eat up about 35Mb. If I create an 80Mb partition
Garry> for 386BSD, will that leave me enough space for Xfree86 and some room to work?
Garry> I can probably squeeze out 100Mb or maybe even 120Mb if I had to without buying 
Garry> a new hard drive...

The next full binary release of XFree86 (1.3) for 386bsd will probably
be about 40Mb in size.  If 386bsd 0.2 adopts shared libraries the size
of following releases will be much smaller.  Rich