From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation space Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:15:37 -0600 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <7ppCc.21650$OB3.20864@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: aba544a8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > What are the particulars for installing Plan9? Smallest IDE drive size? Largest? > Obviously the upper limit is that of the computer's BIOS, but that's not > really relevant. the entire installation is definitely less than a gigabyte, including sources. make sure you choose kfs while installing, your fossil will fill up a small disk rather quickly and i wouldn't advise trying to configure its snaptimes immediately after a first install. according to my venti the initial install was less than 650MB. it grew to a gigabyte after 14 days of use, only after i moved /usr/andrey from kfs to it: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/venti-size-july03.gif andrey