From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 17:53:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05714 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:53:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05698 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:53:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21413; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:23:17 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA01608; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:23:16 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981022102315.E1219@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:23:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: charlespeters@tecpro.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small Hard Drive Installation References: <000901bdfd11$bd4c2f80$c8730418@ci1000971-d.sptnbrg1.sc.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000901bdfd11$bd4c2f80$c8730418@ci1000971-d.sptnbrg1.sc.home.com>; from Charles A. Peters on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 12:42:05PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 21 October 1998 at 12:42:05 -0400, Charles A. Peters wrote: > I have a small hard disk drive (80MB) that I would > like to install freebsd on. This machine will be used > as a dialout/dialup gateway using ppp -auto -alial > ispname. This machine will also have one network card > and one 56k Modem, and 8MB of RAM. > > I need to know approximately how I should slice up my > drives, and which partitions are required. Please > comment on the following partitioning scheme: > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs > ----------- ----------- ----- ----------- ----------- > ----------- ----- ------ > wd0s1a / 10 UFS Y > wd0s1b 10 SWAP > wd0s1e /usr 30 UFS Y > wd0s1f /var 30 UFS Y > > > How much space is required on each partition to > complete a minimal installation via ftp? Don't even start to think of multiple partitions on a drive this size. The only problem you're going to have is deciding how much swap to use. 10 MB is not much. > I have attempted to configure the same type of system using PicoBSD, > but have had no luck, What problems did you have? > If I use a 386SX-33 with 4MB of ram to build this > router/gateway, will this system be quick enough to > service a network with 10 Windoze 95 boxes browsing > the internet, and using email. Well, the limiting factor will be the modem. I don't think the hardware would be a problem. I know of one system running on a 386DX-20 which is doing this job quite happily, along with mail, name and web servers. But it needs more swap for that. 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