Douglas A. Tutty writes:
I currently have OBSD running on my P-II with an 850 MB drive and 64 MB
ram. On install, I chose not to include the compiler set over concern
re drive space. The FAQ says how much space is required to minimally
run OBSD and it says how much to be able to comfortably compile ("4G is
not a bad size").
It may not be "bad" but what is the absolute minimum size of hard drive
for an i386 to be able to recompile any necessary patches itself?
Thanks,
Doug.
I do not want to sound mean or snide here, but you are playing
a somewhat foolish game trying to do things on an 850M drive
and having to worry about every K of disk. This reminds me
of something that Ted Nelson of Xanadu fame once said about
people who dealt with inadequate systems: "Look what I did
with 16K and a Bowie knife!"
I think you could get away with 2.5G of disk if you aren't
using X. /usr/src is around 1G, /usr/obj is I think a little
under that, so 2.5G should give you slop room for stuff.
But disks, little teeny tiny disks are *cheap*. Newegg has
a 40G disk for $38. I could get you in touch with someone
who sells "pulls" from older machines--a 20G disk is likely
$33 or so. Given the Newegg price, I don't think it makes
any sense to use a pull. Your data is at least that
important, right?
Carving an op system up to save space always nips you in
the ass at one point. Given the technology today, using
a sub G disk is.... quaint. The PII system you have
might not be able to address more than 8.4G (though a
bios upgrade might fix that if you have problems), but
even so for $38 I think I'd do upgrade. That disk is
really old and will die before long. 30G and smaller
disks seem to be getting rare these days.
My $0.02...
--STeve Andre'
