A few X questions (small X load for small drive needed)

2004-06-25 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hi, I just loaded XFree86-4 from the ports tree on my laptop, running 5.2.1-RELEASE. It took about 2.5 gigs of space to compile and add it all. Let's say I have a small hard drive in an old laptop, and let's also assume that I am just loading X to just have a simple GUI to run opera and

Re: A few X questions (small X load for small drive needed)

2004-06-25 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Joe Schmoe wrote: Hi, I just loaded XFree86-4 from the ports tree on my laptop, running 5.2.1-RELEASE. It took about 2.5 gigs of space to compile and add it all. Let's say I have a small hard drive in an old laptop, and let's also assume that I am just loading X to just have a

Re: A few X questions (small X load for small drive needed)

2004-06-25 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 25, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Joe Schmoe wrote: What are some options I can add to the standard `make install` command for that port to significantly reduce the size of X ? Any general comments on making a smaller/faster/more efficient X for an old laptop are greatly appreciated. X11 doesn't really

Re: A few X questions (small X load for small drive needed)

2004-06-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:51, Joe Schmoe wrote: Hi, I just loaded XFree86-4 from the ports tree on my laptop, running 5.2.1-RELEASE. It took about 2.5 gigs of space to compile and add it all. Let's say I have a small hard drive in an old laptop, and let's also assume that I am just