[CS-FSLUG] BSD?

[Frank Bax]

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.