Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Michael Vondung
Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server (mail/news, router, firewall) successfully running, I'm ready to

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 05 September 2003 10:01 am, Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jud
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:01:41 +0200, Michael Vondung [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Replying to selected bits - [snip] 4.8 or 5.1?

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 05-Sep-2003, Michael Vondung wrote message Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions. ~ 4.8 or 5.1? I have 4.8 at work, and 5

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Michael Vondung wrote: Partitions If anything brings out the perfectionist in me, it is figuring out how to partition a disk. What I have in mind for the 80GB FreeBSD disk for the workstation is this: / = 512MB (too spacey, but that should be plenty for future releases)

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! Howdy, Michael. My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server (mail/news, router,