Re: Small HDD

On Monday, Dec 22, 2003, at 10:15 Australia/Sydney, Donald Bruce 
Stewart wrote:

> lucas:
>> I bought a Powerbook 180c. Is there any possible way to install 
>> OpenBSD on
>> its 155MB HDD? I guess I can mount /usr via NFS, correct?
>>
>> What is the default size of /usr on this platform? Is it really a 
>> full 250MB?
>>
>> Do I have to make release to trim it down? Or can I use NFS 
>> temporarily
>> and pick and choose binaries?
>>
>> Or is this going to be impossible with 155MB? Should I look for a 
>> 300MB HDD?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Lucas Reddinger
>
> I think you will be able to install the system, but that is about all.
>
> Some of the problems I can think of:
>
>     * swap will be too small, or it will take out too much of the disk
>     * you won't be able to install /usr/ports, or /usr/src and the like
>
> So, you *may* just be able to get it installed, but then there is no
> room left over. I had a terrible time on a 250M disk, until I found a
> 500M one for my mac68k. 500M gives you enough room for the whole deal,
> plus sources.
>
> And, yes, it is really useful to use NFS in this case, once the system
> is up.
>
> -- Don

Lucas,
I think that you will find that NFS is most definitely your friend. I 
am working on booting both my LC II  and a Mac Classic II from NFS off 
an OpenBSD partition on a Pentium MMX 100mhz. I'll keep you posted.

Andrew