Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:49:00 +0800 From: Tian Siyuan <tsy@iist.unu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tsy@iist.unu.edu Subject: help - installation on a old PC with limited hard disk space Message-ID: <35F9D30B.FFEA9C6@iist.unu.edu>
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Dear FreeBSD, I am very interested in this famous free software. I tried to install it on an old PC with 8 M RAM and 82M hard disk space. I read in the hankbook and the FAQ on your home page. It says the 80M is the minimal and 20M for root is enough with a boot manager. So, I partition the hard disk in this way: / 22M swap 16M (=2*RAM size) /var 44M And boot the machine with a floopy containing the 2.2.7 boot.flp and try to intall the OS via FTP (the Primiary site). I select express installation and minimal type. And I select only bin (required) in the package list. But after around 37 of 76 chunks trabsferred. It says that "/mnt write failed, file system is full ... Could you give me some hints to circumvent it? Or I can not install it on this PC? many thanks, -- Tian Siyuan UNU/IIST, Macau To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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