THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS installations. I'm frustrated that they have to be so big. THank you again for responding. FreeBSD has great logical appeal to me, notwithstanding.) Mark Mark Goodell Richmond, VA
--- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:04:11AM -0800, Mark > Goodell wrote: > > > > > >>Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in > terms > > >>of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run > > >>applications and (2) the typical installation. > How > > >>many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. > > > > > >Isn't this information available on the website? > > > > > >Kris > > > > > Hi, > > > > This is either in the webpage or in the docs, but > I forget where. > > > > Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a > stripped down version > > in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried > sometime around 5.0 to do > > this it was up to about 90MB > > That's a really stripped down installation though. > > Between all binaries, plus source, plus ports tree > and X and KDE > I probably use around 1.2 Gigabyte for "typical" > install. > Install a few ports (Apache, MySQL, PHP, browser, > etc) and a medium > database and it can easily use a couple of > Gigabytes. Add media > files (sound, video) and the sky is the limit. > > ////jerry > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Philip M. Gollucci > > Senior Developer - Liquidity Services Inc. > > Phone: 202.467.6868 x 268 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web: http://www.liquidation.com > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
