From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 13:32:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C200E16A4CF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-85.apple.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F53143F3F for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:32:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h9ULWoKk014307; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:32:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0)h9ULWmZq025211; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:32:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> References: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9C6982CE-0B20-11D8-9CED-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:32:49 -0500 To: Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious, how large is FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:32:53 -0000 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