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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!know!mips2!news.bbn.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: X space requirements Message-ID: <rq0n6-m.hasty@netcom.com> Date: 25 Sep 92 15:54:30 GMT References: <Bv2K61.5ow@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <19usidINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 29 In article <19usidINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >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 Under 386bsd, you will need a minimum of 25MB for the binaries, libs, and fonts Amancio Hasty