From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 18:50:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12200 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from umacss1.umac.mo (umacss1.umac.mo [161.64.7.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12192 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsy@iist.unu.edu) Received: from iist.unu.edu (unuiist.iist.unu.edu [192.203.232.5]) by umacss1.umac.mo (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA05962 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:50:05 +0800 (HKT) Received: from sigmund.iist.unu.edu by iist.unu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id JAA01066; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:49:10 HKT Received: from iist.unu.edu by sigmund.iist.unu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA11629; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:49:00 +0800 Message-ID: <35F9D30B.FFEA9C6@iist.unu.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:49:00 +0800 From: Tian Siyuan Organization: UNU/IIST X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tsy@iist.unu.edu Subject: help - installation on a old PC with limited hard disk space Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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