A/UX 2.0: Fitting It on a 40MB Disk

Can a usable A/UX 2.0 be squeezed onto a 40MB disk? Is there a suggested configuration or list of directories to remove to "shoehorn" it into that size? What is the minimum, suggested swap space?


The following is a list of "du" (disk usage) from the A/UX 2.0 Root system, which tells the size of each directory in 512-byte blocks.

        /*UNIX*       2900
        /bin          5122
        /dev            38
        /etc         12874
        /shlib         458
        /usr/bin      8926
        /usr/adm        28
        /usr/catman   6218
        /usr/dict      410
        /usr/etc      1928
        /usr/games    1400
        /usr/include  2882
        /usr/lib     12394
        /usr/spool     448
        /usr/ucb      3296
        /lib          4464
        /mac/bin      4594
        /mac/lib      7344
        /mac/src       504
        /mac/sys      6238
        -------------------
        Total       82,466 blocks

If A/UX 2.0 is purely used for NFS purposes only, it might be possible to squeeze the size and fit it on a 40MB disk.  However, it might take some time to go through each of the files and/or directories and determine which to keep or to remove.

In general, a lot of files and/or directories like /usr/catman, /usr/games, /usr/dict, /mac/src, may be removed.


The default Swap size in A/UX 2.0 is about 18MB.  14MB was the default swap size used in A/UX 1.1.1 and before.  This increase is mainly for A/UX 2.0 MultiFinder activities.  If you do not have many Macintosh applications and/or specifically A/UX applications like C language compilations running on the system, it may be reduced to below 10MB.  Furthermore, if you have plenty of physical RAM, 16MB or 32MB for example, you may reduce more swap space.

Again, this is still the "It depends..." type of question.  We can't give an exact number on the size of Swap area and also, which files/directories should be kept or removed.  You probably need to play the "try and error" game to knock the system below 40MB.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012