Douglas A. Tutty writes: 
> I currently have OBSD running on my P-II with an 850 MB drive and 64 MB

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> ram.  On install, I chose not to include the compiler set over concern

> re drive space.  The FAQ says how much space is required to minimally

> run OBSD and it says how much to be able to comfortably compile ("4G is

> not a bad size").

>

> It may not be "bad" but what is the absolute minimum size of hard drive

> for an i386 to be able to recompile any necessary patches itself?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Doug.

I do not want to sound mean or snide here, but you are playing

a somewhat foolish game trying to do things on an 850M drive

and having to worry about every K of disk.  This reminds me

of something that Ted Nelson of Xanadu fame once said about

people who dealt with inadequate systems:  "Look what I did

with 16K and a Bowie knife!" 
I think you could get away with 2.5G of disk if you aren't

using X.  /usr/src is around 1G, /usr/obj is I think a little

under that, so 2.5G should give you slop room for stuff. 
But disks, little teeny tiny disks are *cheap*.  Newegg has

a 40G disk for $38.  I could get you in touch with someone

who sells "pulls" from older machines--a 20G disk is likely

$33 or so. Given the Newegg price, I don't think it makes

any sense to use a pull.  Your data is at least that

important, right? 
Carving an op system up to save space always nips you in

the ass at one point.  Given the technology today, using

a sub G disk is....  quaint.  The PII system you have

might not be able to address more than 8.4G (though a

bios upgrade might fix that if you have problems), but

even so for $38 I think I'd do upgrade.  That disk is

really old and will die before long.  30G and smaller

disks seem to be getting rare these days. 
My $0.02... 
 --STeve Andre'