Size of FreeBSD

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 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

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