[CS-FSLUG] BSD?
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Mon Jul 18 09:56:08 CDT 2005
Wow. The generic OpenBSD kernel is 5M, so you're not going to fit that on
a couple of floppies. I think I'll give this BasicLinux a try on a Celeron
400 I was asked to "recycle" last week. Disk is smaller than yours - only
1.8G.
If you really wanted a BSD distro that installs from a couple of floppies
only, then why did you mention a 2.5G disk? Were you afraid someone might
suggest a distro on two floppies that has 1000:1 compression ratio?
At 10:36 AM 7/18/05, Christopher Rose wrote:
>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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