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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: X space requirements Date: 25 Sep 1992 11:18:37 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19usidINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <Bv2K61.5ow@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <Bv2K61.5ow@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.) writes: > In reading through the documentation for X386, ~61M of diskspace is > needed for the binaries. > > In reading the documentation for X11 for Linux ~5.5M needed for > the base system -- 21M for full system. > > This is not Linux advocacy, I would like to run X but I only have ~32M free. Okay, 386bsd does not yet have shlib support. However, I don't see the point in this discussion. What do you want - a complete system or something that fits in your disk space ? Just a thought Bernard repeat of minimum disk space for kernel src + X 80 Mb -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV