From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 12 16:43:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA4237B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13409.mail.yahoo.com (web13409.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D84843E91 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:43:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021113004319.86099.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.24.79.181] by web13409.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:43:19 CET Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:43:19 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" Subject: How big a HD? (automatic settings) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, Sorry if this is not exactly -hackers material, but I suspect some committer actually caused havoc for newbies. I recall someone changed the auto-settings to accomodate for the bigger disk and memory sizes available nowadays, but newbies (precisely the people that tend to use the automatic settings by default) usually start by dedicating only a small part of the disk for FreeBSD. After some advocacy effort, I convinced a friend to try FreeBSD and I handed him some old 3.4 CDs I had. He attempted to install it on a 600M HD with the surprise that the auto settings in sysinstall didn't leave him sufficient space on the /usr partition. He was somewhat surprised as the CD box actually suggested that much less space was required. He downloaded a 5.0 ISO and found the same problem. My question is; how much disk space is required to install FreeBSD nowadays?? cheers, Pedro. ===== --- Pedro F. Giffuni M.SC. Industrial Eng. University of Pittsburgh Mech. Eng. Universidad Nacional de Colombia --- Yahoo is powered by FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ Per te Blu American Express è gratis! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://www.americanexpress.it/land_yahoo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message