Subject: Re: Which NetBSD for 4MB Ram Notebook..170MB HD?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/29/2005 10:42:46
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:13:20AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> > >On IRC they told me that I even can get current to run on this machine
> > >with absolute small installation, it should fit on 100MB. Can anybody
> > >confirm that?
> >
> > Yes, but it may be missing important files you need.
>
> That's not true. An extracted base.tgz + etc.tgz takes around 64Mb of
> diskspace, and gives you a fully functional NetBSD system. Only without
> compilers, games, manpages, ... But it's functional.
As an illustration: this is my router (Soekris NET4501). It runs several
services, they're all in base.tgz.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 97M 49M 43M 52% /
mfs:7 49K 41K 5.0K 89% /dev
/dev/wd0e 22M 2.4M 18M 11% /var
mfs:1231 9.4M 74K 8.8M 0% /tmp
kernfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /kern
GH