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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Harddisk partitions
Date: 14 Apr 1997 20:55:35 GMT
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Keith Woodworth <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net> wrote:

> I'll probably only go 200 megs for 95 then as i dont have much installed 
> on it. Though at this point the 386/dx-33 w/ 8 megs is running fbsd quite 
> nicely. Have not tried X yet though.

X won't be a racing car exactly.  You might get away with it if you've
got enough swap space, but this is already a situation where you'll
quickly notice why SCSI disks are superiour (with a decent SCSI
controller).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)