Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:13:55 -0500 (EST) From: "kenneth.j.krumm.1" <kkrumm@purdue.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: install question/problem Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980903214748.7426A-100000@herald.cc.purdue.edu>
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I have an old 386 with 8mg ram and a 500 meg hard drive. Yesterday, I tried to install FreeBSD with ftp from your primary server over my ethernet card. To get the system to recognize my ethernet card i had to change settings on the boot disk kernel. The way I chose to partition my disk was: / 32M swap 64M /var 30M /usr 394M I decided to install the "user" source kit. Everything was fine and it finished installing in about a half hour to hour. But when the system rebooted for the first time, it did not find the ethernet card. All of the settings I had chosen for the initial kernel were gone. It instead loaded the default kernel. So I could no longer connect to the network. I decided I would update my installation to the "developer" source kit so I could change the kernel. So I used the boot disk and began to download the files for the developer source kit, but within a minute I had run out of disk space. Is my hard drive too small for the developer source kit? Can you recommend a better way to partition my hard drive? Should I even try to run FreeBSD on such an old machine? It would probably help if I told you what I wanted to run on it. Basically, I would like a unix machine to program in C and C++ and possibly to run an Apache web server and or ftp and telnet. If nothing else I would like to use it as a router. Please email me any answers, information, or comments you have. Thank you for your time. Kenneth Krumm kkrumm@purdue.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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