On 1/13/06, Kael Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I am curious as to the disk space requirements of the various "canned > distribution sets" on i86 hardware. > > While the following excerpt from the Handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html) > was accurate back in the day (I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.X), it > doesn't seem to have much relationship to the "Minimal" canned > distributions in 6.0-Release. It certainly seems that X has grown > larger than the 100 MB suggested. > > > A minimal installation of FreeBSD takes as little as 100 MB of disk > > space. However, that is a very minimal install, leaving almost no > > space for your own files. A more realistic minimum is 250 MB without > > a graphical environment, and 350 MB or more if you want a graphical > > user interface. If you intend to install a lot of third party software as > > well, then you will need more space. > > Does anyone know how much space Minimal, User and X-User take to > install? This would be excellent information to have available for > the user and sysinstall itself. > > What would be almost too much to hope for, would be some error > checking where the diskspace requirements of the selected packages are > compared to the requested partitioning scheme before the commit. It > was a dream I had once... The current failure mode is inelegant. > > [this is not a flame about sysinstall... i find it easy to use, most > of the time, and it has improved over the years.] > > If someone knows the answer, let's get it into the handbook. Or > perhaps someone has hooks for sysinstall/dist.h and dist.c that can > pull out the tar file names (e.g. base.am,...) for various sets? I > imagine that a basic understanding of the install process would be all > that is really needed to figure out what files are used for what sets. >
The attached report I made should answer all of your questions. -- Please sign the native Flash player for FreeBSD petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html
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