Re: i386 minimum space requirements

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 22:22, John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> >> 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).

OK, so the notes should probably be updated

Huh, looks like distrib/notes/i386/hardware on current and -10 has:

| runs on all i486 or later PC-compatible systems with 1 to 32 processors.
| The minimal configuration for a full, standard installation is 64MB of RAM
| and 2GB of disk space.

Do you have that 250MB from somewhere else?

It may be worth adjusting to note that a base-only could be installed
in 32MB of RAM and 250MB of disk space, but would not be performant
:-p

David