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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!taligent!apple!motcsd!xhost92.csd.mot.com!ajv From: ajv@xhost92.csd.mot.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Hardware Configuration to run 386BSD Message-ID: <7047@motcsd.csd.mot.com> Date: 1 Sep 92 20:39:26 GMT References: <Aug.31.22.40.04.1992.12213@ruhets.rutgers.edu> Sender: usenet@motcsd.csd.mot.com Lines: 17 ghe@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Guangliang He) writes: >I am interested to know what is needed to run a 386BSD system >comfortablly. A 33 MHz 486 system? How much of RAM? 8 Meg enough? 16? >Harddisk? How much to hold all bsd (including source and manual)? What >if including latest version of X-window systems. Of course, I would >like to have some space left to do programming. Leaving out X, you can run quite comfortably on 4 Mb RAM, 25 Mhz 386, and 100 Mb of disk. I left off the source to GNU C and a couple other "biggies", but otherwise was able to install both source and binary, and build kernels and commands. Since then I've added a 1.2 Gb SCSI disk. The GNU C source is back on-line! :-) Andy Valencia