From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 5: 1:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C7837B401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14L34f-0004Ro-00; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:01:25 +0000 To: "Michl" Alexandre Salim , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: Query about planned install Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:01:25 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can't help you with much of this .. but ny tuppence worth is below.. Cliff > Hello, > > I am rather new at using FreeBSD, having used Linux for the past three ye> ars or so as my primary OS (getting that out of the way to 'set' the leve> l of discussion). I currently have FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE installed on a sma> ll-ish 2G partition, and having dabbled with it I'm almost ready to re-in> stall it in a larger partition, as soon as my new hard drive arrives. > > Any suggestions about partitioning welcome. Currently planning to have ei> ther root, usr and home, or just root and home. You might want to consider having a seperate /var, depending on how mucal mail, news, logs you process.. But the main reason I sen> d this query is regarding building the ports collection. I have access to> a fast Internet connection at the university but the connection for my P> C itself is a 9.6 Kbps GSM using a mobile phone (so I have rather non-sta> ndard hardwares including an Elan P-series desktop PCMCIA reader - part o> f the reason I'm abandoning Linux is the mess they have made with PCMCIA > support recently). Let me detail my current plan. > > 1. Install 4.2-RELEASE > 2. Download latest ports tgz in computer room, burn to CD > 3. Install ports > 2. Use CVSup (set up CTM for later regular use) to sync with 4.2-STABLE a> nd sync the ports tree > 3. make World in /usr/src > 4. recompile kernel > 5. test > 6. *this is the biggie*. In /usr/ports, do 'make fetch-list', copy the li> st to floppy, download all the files in the list in the computer room and> transfer in CD-Rs. > 7. Build ports > > This raises some questions. > 1. How much space to allocate for the ports' sources? My new hard disk is> 20 Gig, planning to use it for FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS and QNX. Old hard di> sk for Windows and Solaris. Oops, flame bait :). I am thinking of having > a shared partition for use by FreeBSD and Linux... perhaps ext2 since Lin> ux's ufs support is not certified stable? There are warnings in the FBSD kernel configuration files about EXT2 support, something abou tit "lagging behind" .. :) > > 2. Will the above plan work? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Michel Salim > > Michèl Salim > __________________________________________ > Get your free domain name and domain-based > e-mail from Namezero.com > New! Namezero Plus domains now available. > Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message