Re: BSD on a floppy?

2004-06-29 Thread eyesonly
On 29-06-2004 at 09:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to the list and was wondering if there was a BSD version that would run on a write protected floppy without a HD to use for a router/firewall? ClosedBSD may be exactly what you're looking for: http://www.closedbsd.org/faq.html regards Mark

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread eyesonly
On 20-06-2004 at 18:14 Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard disk. snip First, a question: what do you want this machine to do? Hi, thanks! Fortunately, no special requirements at this stage. I simply

Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread eyesonly
Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard disk. According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. However, both the User and (retried) Minimal distributions left me with no space in /usr I used the default partitioning (entire disk) and