Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:27:44 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: "Steve Gladstone" <steve_gladstone@hotmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much disk space is required when installing FreeBSD 4.7 Message-ID: <200301311428.h0VESXr01270@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <F63l1GM3h3vLgAusVxO0000032f@hotmail.com>
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Hi! > I intend to make my system dual boot Windows and FreeBSD. > I have shrunk the existing partition to around 3GB using Partition Magic and > left just over 1GB for FreeBSD. > > I want to install at least an 'average user' distribution including X > Windows. > > How should the slice be partitioned into file systems and swap space given > that I will be running in single user mode? 1 GB is pretty tight if you want to run X. But it should be possible, given that I recently installed FreeBSD 4.7 + XFree86 4.2.1 + KDE 3.0.5 on a machine with 1.2 + 0.8 GB disks (of which the latter is dedicated to /home). I even rebuilt the world and compiled all the stuff from ports - this took several days on that ole' P166 :-) For that small a disk I'd recommend just creating two partitions - swap (I know everybody blindly tells you to use RAMx2, but in my experience you can get by with a *lot* less) and a / partition. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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