From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 7: 6: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alan17.his.com (alan17.his.com [205.252.80.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AA4614E8E for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alan17@his.com) Received: (qmail 1119 invoked by uid 500); 10 Jun 1999 14:09:27 -0000 Message-ID: <19990610140927.1118.qmail@alan17.his.com> From: alan17@his.com Subject: Re: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Jun 9, 99 05:30:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 According to Doug White: > > How much RAM do you have? 75MB of swap isn't that much. Also, you want > more space in /usr than in /. I have 32 meg of RAM; my Linux swap is 64meg and works fine. What I want to do is put _all_ of the system onto my first partition, and put e.g. /home or /nerdstuff on my second big partition, where I will put my users(mostly me). Something that Jeff Bond wrote implies that I can't do that. I _certainly_ can't allow any install procedure to do any repartitioning of my new drive, since I already have stuff in the Linux part of the drive further on. If the FreeBSD install procedure insists on carving up my drive to suit itself . . . goodby to my plans of trying out FreeBSD Many thanks to the two who've replied, and I hope that others can help in this dilemma. TIA and best wishes, Alan -- Alan McConnell An error is the more dangerous the more truth it Pixel Analysis contains. (H. Amiel) Hypocrite reader -- my alan17@his.com fellow man -- my brother! (C. Baudelaire) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message