[CS-FSLUG] BSD?

[Christopher Rose]

Frank,

I can do a minimal linux install using only two floppies and still have an x-window. If you don't believe me, check out BasicLinux. Hence, I do not see how one can not use only floppies to install BSD and still have an x server.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Bax" <fbax at sympatico.ca>
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] BSD?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:25:37 -0400

> 
> At 01:16 AM 7/18/05, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > Hey, what is a good BSD distribution that I can try? I would like 
> > something that will fit onto a 2559.8 MB hard drive and 
> > preferably something that can be installed via floppy. If that 
> > won't work, can anyone suggest a way to set up a minimimal 
> > FreeBSD setup with X? Naturally I'd like to continue to use my 
> > ethernet connection via Qwest. Any help and or suggestions are 
> > appreciated.
> 
> 
> Packages required for X will not fit on a floppy!  Therefore, I 
> guess you mean boot from floppy, then install from something else 
> (cdrom, ftp, etc)?  OpenBSD will do this - minimal install includes 
> option for X.  Once you are up and running with minimal X, you can 
> install the 30+ packages required to install KDE or GNOME (minimal 
> X does not have either of these).  Here's a basic install I did 
> recently without X, but with about 10M of packages:
> 
> $ df -h
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a      126M   63.1M   56.3M    53%    /
> /dev/wd0d      251M    4.0K    239M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/wd0e      503M    233M    245M    49%    /usr
> /dev/wd0f      126M    3.4M    116M     3%    /home
> /dev/wd0g      503M    8.4M    469M     2%    /var
> 
> It's a fully functional server with all local content on another 
> partition not listed here.
> 
> The X install tar files are about 60M.
>          ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/i386/
> I've got to do another install later this month, if you want to 
> know what basic install with X, I could do it twice - once with X, 
> then again without it.  Let me know if you want the numbers.  
> OpenBSD does not have ISO images available or download, but it's 
> easy enough to "roll your own".  Boot from floppy or cdrom, then 
> install the rest from cdrom. 
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