From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 02:00:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28807 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 02:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28796 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 02:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29787; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 04:57:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) Message-Id: <199808300857.EAA29787@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: stumped at install In-Reply-To: <19980830175355.C606@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 30, 98 05:53:55 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 04:57:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: djv@bedford.net, mdgabriel@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: djv@bedford.net From: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote > On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 2:54:01 -0400, CyberPeasant wrote: > > Michael Gabriel wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Assuming this is for general purpose use, and by lots of disk I mean > >> 1GB. > > > > / 64 MB > > /var 64 MB > > swap 128 MB > > /usr what's left > > > > you might want a separate partition for /tmp and /home > > maybe 64MB for /tmp? > > Why? You've specified too many file systems already. Without knowing > what he wants to use the machine for (or even how big his disk > partition is), you can't recommend anything, though a guess at the He said, Greg, "Plenty of disk". I qualified that as >1GB. I said "general purpose". > swap size is reasonable. I can't think of an earthy reason for a > separate /tmp file system. I can, but I'm not telling. You win, Greg. Bye! Dave -- "Today, machines sit on our desks and spend the overwhelming majority of their cycles doing nothing more important than blinking a cursor." --William Dickens http://www.feedmag.com/html/feedline/98.07dickens/98.07dickens_master.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message