I can't really see the rationale for putting / and /usr on separate partitions.
Swap would go on a different partition because it does not use the same file
system.
I like to put /home on a separate partition, and don't like the idea of
/usr/home.
I also don't like to put /var and /tmp on
I could build one kernel that would support the hardware on both computers, or
one kernel for each computer. This would be the USB-stick i386 install. I
would also have FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 on the new computer hard drive; would put the
system source and ports tree on the hard-drive installation.
To build FreeBSD 9.0 on USB stick for the old computer, host computer would be
new amd64, cross-compiling for i386.
I see default /var partition size for new FreeBSD installations was to be 4 GB,
so I might be safer with 16 GB rather than 8 GB USB stick, even though there
would be no need to
I think dvd1.iso was 700 MB and would therefore fit on a CD?
I just checked, it was 700 MB:
Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
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NameSizeLast Modified
File:CHECKSUM.MD5 1 KB09/01/1100:00:00
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:43:47 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote:
No rel 9.0 i386 disc1.iso anywhere. My pc can not boot from memstick.
Polytropon responded:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
A
