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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC Date: 18 Jan 1994 06:11:45 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 45 Message-ID: <2hfuj1$huf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca> <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, Jim Pitts <pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu> wrote: >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. Huh? FreeBSD has had shared libraries in it's -current release same as NetBSD. FYI - I installed ALL of FreeBSD with ALL of XFree86 2.0 shared on a 105 MB partition which contained a 15MB root, 16MB swap, the rest user and I've got about 14MB free on /usr and 6MB free on root. I haven't deleted one thing, so I suspect if we wanted to lose the compiler and libraries and man pages and other stuff we could fit it pretty easily into an 80MB drive w/out even breaking a sweat. I was able to get X into 45MB (including swap) back in the pre-shared lib days with a very early version of FreeBSD, so it's doable. (But not recommeended) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me