Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:38:16 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Typical FreeBSD 4.0 Installation Message-ID: <200007271638.JAA76914@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000727112119.mj@isy.liu.se> from Micke Josefsson at "Jul 27, 2000 11:21:19 am"
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Micke Josefsson wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > On 27-Jul-00 T Judd wrote: > > I'm about to install FreeBSD, i think... > > > > I have a 10GB disk, and I want 2/3rds of it to be on Win*, and 1/3 on > > FreeBSD. That means approximately 3.17 GB of data for FreeBSD, is that a > > "healthy" amount for a user? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > 3Gigs will do perfectly. My first intallation was under 1G and I used it > heavily. Then I installed many ports to find out what they were and did not > remove them after testing, so I ran out of space:( > A tru mini-but-practical requires about 300M, you can sqeeze it down to 120M > or so but that is clearly no what you are after. > > Just make certain that the FreeBSD slice starts within the first 1024 > cylinders - or you won't be able to boot from it. This doesn't matter for FreeBSD 4.1 and later as long as your BIOS detects the full length of the drive. If the BIOS only sees 8.4 gig of the drive, then you do still have to worry about fitting / in the first 1024 cylinders. > A thought: Why not let FreeBSD use the entire disk... > > /Micke -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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