Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:27:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: WOLF <travis@interlog.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329191710.7872A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980328213251.0068adb0@mail.interlog.com>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, WOLF wrote: > Hi FreeBSD, > > I am extremely interessted in FreeBSD, and up to this point have > been very impressed with the Installation and help from the Online Manuals I > have read. I was wondering though if you could help me out with a problem I > am having installing FreeBSD 2.2.5 on one of my machines. OK, the machine > is a 386DX with 8Mb ram and a 41Mb hard drive. I have a boot floppy (which > I downloaded) and I boot up with it. I configure my kernel appropriatly (no > conflicts) and change necessary settings to support my network card. I then > exit and it loads up the installation screen. I try novice and go through > the steps. When making my first partion I use all of the 41Mb and make it a > BSD partion. I then go to the next step and mounts. the "/" route mount i > allocate 20Mb to it. For the swap I allocate about 10M. The rest of the > space a use for the "/usr" mount (about 11Mb). I then select floppy for the > type of media I wish to use. I get to the final step where I commit and I > get these errors: <snip> Well, to put it simply, that just not going to work. If you have less than 200 megs or so, you're best of just mounting everyhting on /, and with the space you have, .... Well, to put it bluntly, you just can't do it. You'd need at least 60-80 megs NOT INCLUDING your swap partition. All those errors are because it's out of space. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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