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From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.171912.22252@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff
References: <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca> <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 17:19:10 +0000
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In article <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes:
>In article <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca>,
>Boris Ivanovic <bivanovi@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> wrote:
>>
>> I have a 386/25 with a 80 MB hard drive. It seems to me that this system
>>is too lowsy to use 386BSD. Am I correct?
>>I have the whole system, and unless I did something wrong, full expansion
>>is 60MB...
>>
>>
>
>This is based on the assumption you want a full install.
>
>Looks like you might run into 2 problems. First, and most obvious is disk
>space. 80MB is lean if not enough. Even if you did manage a full install with
>swap space you would have little room for allpication software and expansion
>(like XFree86, emacs, etc).
>
>The 3 most active packages out there right now are FreeBSD, NetBSD, and
>Linux. If disk space is a concern Linux seems to be a favorite. I do not
>know how deeply integrated the NetBSD shared libraries are at the current time
>but they could make them a close second. FreeBSD with no shared libraries at
>the current release makes it the largest ... for now.
FreeBSD will have shared libraries in its next release -around March 1st.
They've been in current for quite a while and work very well.
>
>If you DO want to install 386BSD regardless of its current status, you are
>about right on target for disk space consumption (altough I am not sure if
>this includes the 'etc' distribution or not which is rather large).
>
>So, if 60MB can be done:
>
>80MB (base)-60(System Software)-8(10% file system size)-8(swap) = 4MB
^^^^^^
This could be significantly less with shared libs. Can't say exactly
because my box has a lot of extra stuff lying around on it so it's
not easy to measure the savings.
--
Paul Richards,
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff
Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@UK.AC.CARDIFF