Laurence Berland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably said:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 486 I've got lying around to
> use as a NATing firewall for my home network, but I've only got a 200
> Meg HD around. I'm gonna go get another HD later, but right now I'd
I had a 2.2.something 486 as a dialup router many moons ago, on a
160Mb disk.
> like to get running with just that. So far I've been trying with 16 to
> swap and various other combinations, but it always seems to run out of
> /usr space. I figure / should be at least 32MB, and the rest (~152MB)
> goes to /usr. I'm trying to install the binaries, the docs, and the
> kernel source (but not the rest of the source). Any idea if it's even
> possible? Should I shrink down the root partition more? I've done
You could leave /usr in / and share the spare space ... and go through
the binaries deleting things you won't need on another disk (or via
NFS) ? A minimal NAT box doesn't need that much in the way of binaries.
> loads of installs at this point, but all on HDs with at least a gig for
> FreeBSD. Any ideas where I can get a bigger HD that's still under the
> limit for old BIOSen? Thanks in advance for any help.
You could get a cheap bootable scsi card like the adaptec 1542 (from
memory, ISA bootable) and drop a 1gb scsi disk in it ?
That or look at picobsd ?
P.
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