Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:32:49 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious, how large is FreeBSD? Message-ID: <9C6982CE-0B20-11D8-9CED-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> References: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost>
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On Oct 30, 2003, at 4:20 PM, Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu wrote: > I just purchased FreeBSD 5.1 and got it installed > sucessfully-YEAH!-yesterday. I am a "new newbie" with no previous > experience with UNIX, so I feel this is a wonderful accomplishment. I > ran accross one problem, though. Every time I installed ALL, the > installation froze after about 30 minutes. I tried this about 8 times > and realized that every time it froze on the exact same place. Congratulations on trying something new; I hope you'll enjoy FreeBSD. Anyway, your problem sounds a lot like APCI firing (ie, your machine going into sleep mode)-- try disabling APM/APCI via the BIOS or via the FreeBSD boot screen and see whether that helps. > I eventually came to the conclusion that ALL could not fit on my > hard drive (4Gb total) and installed the USER configuration with the X > thing and only KDE packages and the installation was successful. So > was my conclusion correct? Do I need a larger harddrive? Is 4Gb not > enough for ALL? How big is FreeBSD anyway? That depends on how you partition your disk, but 4GB should be plenty. You can fit a "full install" into about 1 GB... Good luck, -- -Chuck
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