[CS-FSLUG] BSD?

[Christopher Rose]

I was only stating the size of the spare hard drive that I have to work with. I have another drive of similiar size with BasicLinux 3.32 on it already. I just don't use it currently.

Pax,
Christopher


----- 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 10:56:08 -0400

> 
> 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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