Subject: Re: Getting closer with my PowerMac G3 ...
To: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/08/1998 13:00:03
Given you have 160MB RAM you can leave out the swapspace on the
zip - you're not going to have enough space for a crashdump, and
you're probably unlikely to run out of VM...
David/absolute
"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Greg Earle wrote:
> [ Much fun with NetBSD on a G3 + zip ]
>
> (One thing, however: the distribution sets take up 45 Mb, gzipped. Even if
> I leave out 7.5 Mb of the games and the man pages, am I gonna have enough
> room to get the remaining 37+ Mb unzipped onto a Zip disk with ~ 80 Mb of
> usable space? Maybe I should leave the "comp" stuff off until/unless I can
> get things working - or get a real disk to hang off the external SCSI bus.)
>
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