Just curious, how large is FreeBSD?

[Charles Swiger]

On Oct 30, 2003, at 4:20 PM, Keith.Fortenbach at mail.uh.edu wrote:
> I just purchased FreeBSD 5.1 and got it installed 
> sucessfully-YEAH!-yesterday.  I am a "new newbie" with no previous 
> experience with UNIX, so I feel this is a wonderful accomplishment.  I 
> ran accross one problem, though.  Every time I installed ALL, the 
> installation froze after about 30 minutes.  I tried this about 8 times 
> and realized that every time it froze on the exact same place.

Congratulations on trying something new; I hope you'll enjoy FreeBSD.

Anyway, your problem sounds a lot like APCI firing (ie, your machine 
going into sleep mode)-- try disabling APM/APCI via the BIOS or via the 
FreeBSD boot screen and see whether that helps.

>   I eventually came to the conclusion that ALL could not fit on my 
> hard drive (4Gb total) and installed the USER configuration with the X 
> thing and only KDE packages and the installation was successful.  So 
> was my conclusion correct?  Do I need a larger harddrive? Is 4Gb not 
> enough for ALL?  How big is FreeBSD anyway?

That depends on how you partition your disk, but 4GB should be plenty.  
You can fit a "full install" into about 1 GB...

Good luck,
-- 
-Chuck