From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 6:28:44 2003 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 9425737B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246F843E4A for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:28:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h0VESXr01270; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:28:33 +0200 Message-Id: <200301311428.h0VESXr01270@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 31 Jan 03 16:27:58 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 31 Jan 03 16:27:50 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Steve Gladstone" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:27:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: How much disk space is required when installing FreeBSD 4.7 In-reply-to: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > I intend to make my system dual boot Windows and FreeBSD. > I have shrunk the existing partition to around 3GB using Partition Magic and > left just over 1GB for FreeBSD. > > I want to install at least an 'average user' distribution including X > Windows. > > How should the slice be partitioned into file systems and swap space given > that I will be running in single user mode? 1 GB is pretty tight if you want to run X. But it should be possible, given that I recently installed FreeBSD 4.7 + XFree86 4.2.1 + KDE 3.0.5 on a machine with 1.2 + 0.8 GB disks (of which the latter is dedicated to /home). I even rebuilt the world and compiled all the stuff from ports - this took several days on that ole' P166 :-) For that small a disk I'd recommend just creating two partitions - swap (I know everybody blindly tells you to use RAMx2, but in my experience you can get by with a *lot* less) and a / partition. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message