From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 00:01:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22720 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 00:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22714 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 00:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29333; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 02:54:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199808300654.CAA29333@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: stumped at install In-Reply-To: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com> from Michael Gabriel at "Aug 29, 98 10:59:03 pm" To: mdgabriel@hotmail.com (Michael Gabriel) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 02:54:01 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Gabriel wrote: > Dear Sirs, > 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. > > Michael Gabriel > 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? then reduce /usr to 600MB and give /home the rest. This will, I think, leave enough space in /usr for a fair number of ports, and kernel and "world" sources and objects, and for X. Just taking the defaults works fairly well. Dave -- Su accion letal comienza en pocas horas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message