Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:56:00AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: With that little disk space, I would be inclined to make it all just one root (/) partition - with a bit of swap. You might not even be able to have a

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: 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

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Actually, some of the heavy hitters out there say they have been leaning toward all / disk partitioning + swap, of course. A little OT, but although it has been advised over and over that you should never use a / only system, in some cases I have found it very useful. It is exceptionally easy

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

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Hi Mark, 852 MB should be enough. Go with a Custom installation, and you'll need to be utterly ruthless about not installing unneeded distribution sets. Custom installation scares me a little, as I don't really know what I'm doing yet. I will try and read docs and probably start over

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

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread Renato Marques
Hi, Try this configuration / 128MB swap 32MB /var 32MB /tmp 32MB /usr the rest of the disk... I think tou will be albe to run the X too 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

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: 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

Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-20 Thread Jorge Mario G.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: 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