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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.uoregon.edu!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 20:50:01 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2hhi1p$lva@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1547@thunder.lakeheadu.ca> <CJs1zL.8x3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2hfuj1$huf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <hastyCJtDIG.7BE@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <hastyCJtDIG.7BE@netcom.com>, Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: >In article <2hfuj1$huf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: I write:> I was able to get X into 45MB (including I write:>swap) back in the pre-shared lib days with a very early version of FreeBSD, I write:>so it's doable. (But not recommeended) >May I ask why is not recommended to have a very small installation >of FreeBSD;specially, if we have shared libraries? The small installation I was speaking about did nothing but run X. No compilers, no man pages, no room for apps, no X clients, nothing but the kernel and necessary utilities + X fonts and the X server. This was pre-shared so you could go alot smaller now. It's not recommended since it can do nothing but server as an X-terminal. However, I think once the diskless support is finalized I think it may become more viable to build minimal installations. 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