On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> > I have a 160Mb hard-drive, and I want to install NetBSD on it.  But I
> > also want to keep a MacOS partition.  Do I have a hope, or is it just
> > too small?
> 
> Sure, you have plenty of hope ;-)  The real question is:  Just how much
> stuff you do you want to install on your drive?  Basically, I'd recommend
> figuring out how much space you want to keep for the MacOS, and then
> figure out what you want to do with NetBSD.  I believe that 80 MB will be
> enough for the base and etc distribution with a little space left over for
> swap.  I'm about to install onto an 80 MB hard drive in an attempt to
> prove this ;-)
> 
> Perhaps someone else will have a slightly better idea of what size some of
> the other packages are, though.
> 
> I hope this helps some.

As a matter of fact, for half a year i used NetBSD part-time on my only
Mac with a 160MB hard drive.  I gave it 16MB swap - although less works in
a pinch - and about a 70MB HFS partition.  I was a little limited- no
CodeWarrior, no kernel compiles without blood sweat and tears - but it
worked.