From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 23:37:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20515 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20497 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA18119; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:06:11 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA00617; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:06:10 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980830160609.A606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:06:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Gabriel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stumped at install References: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Michael Gabriel on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 10:59:03PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 29 August 1998 at 22:59:03 -0700, Michael Gabriel wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I have recently acquired a copy of Freebsd 2.26. Only to be > disappointed and frustrated with the install. I have a cdrom and plenty > of disk space. When cued to alloted a certain amount of memory space > (minimum being as yous mention 20M) I'm at a loss as to "set" the > specifics. (ie. / , swap/ var) as required. It seems a hassle and I > don't want it to be so. Can you help. Sure. Let the install do it for you. But 20 MB is far too little; you'd need at least 200 to make a useful installation. Under 500 MB you probably *do* want to divide the disk yourself. For a small installation, take one file system (/) and as much swap space as you can spare. Probably 100 MB is adequate. For more details, see "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message