Re: i386 minimum space requirements

John Klos <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:22:43 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Some rough amounts:
>>
>> base, comp, etc, games, kern-GENERIC, man, misc, modules, rescue, text: 629 megs
>> With tests: 678 megs
>> With xbase, xcomp, xetc, xfont, xserver: 929 megs
>> With debug and xdebug: 2832 megs
>>
>> I don't think 250 megs of disk space is going to cut it any longer :)
>
> Definitely a good idea to update!
>
> So ~1G with X, and ~700M without. Would you be able to run a quick
> test with just base, kern-GENERIC & etc to get an absolute minimum?
> (More likely to be of interest to 32bit x86 retro dabblers :)

Certainly. It's 186 megs (as reported with du -sm).

This reminds me that I want to see if I can figure out why NetBSD's 
bootblocks won't work on a TI 486DLC. Luckily, I have more than a gigabyte 
of disk for it.

Thanks!
John