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