Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:53:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: djv@bedford.net, Michael Gabriel <mdgabriel@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stumped at install Message-ID: <19980830175355.C606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808300654.CAA29333@lucy.bedford.net>; from CyberPeasant on Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 02:54:01AM -0400 References: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com> <199808300654.CAA29333@lucy.bedford.net>
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On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 2:54:01 -0400, CyberPeasant wrote: > Michael Gabriel wrote: >> I have recently acquired a copy of Freebsd 2.26. Only to be >> disappointed and frustrated with the install. I have a cdrom and plenty >> of disk space. When cued to alloted a certain amount of memory space >> (minimum being as yous mention 20M) I'm at a loss as to "set" the >> specifics. (ie. / , swap/ var) as required. It seems a hassle and I >> don't want it to be so. Can you help. > > Assuming this is for general purpose use, and by lots of disk I mean >> 1GB. > > / 64 MB > /var 64 MB > swap 128 MB > /usr what's left > > you might want a separate partition for /tmp and /home > maybe 64MB for /tmp? Why? You've specified too many file systems already. Without knowing what he wants to use the machine for (or even how big his disk partition is), you can't recommend anything, though a guess at the swap size is reasonable. I can't think of an earthy reason for a separate /tmp file system. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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