Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:39:35 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD]" <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: John Ko <johnko@canada.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD On Western Digital 2170 Harddrive? Message-ID: <3842BA57.8300443C@sasknow.com> References: <000801bf3c80$2e326bc0$062999cf@john>
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> John Ko wrote: > > I was trying to install 4.4 LiteFreeBSD into my 486DX100 computer with > 16MEG RAM. This copy came with the "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg > Lehey. > I was curiously installing it on a tiny 170MEG Western Digital > Harddrive(2170). > My questions would be: > > 1. Can a bare minimum FreeBSD system be installed on that harddrive > knowing > that the minimum that the book mentioned is 200 MEG? > > 2. Does FreeBSD recognize or support WD 2170? FreeBSD could not see > my > harddrive which both MSDOS or Linux can see without any problem. > > Thanks for the reply. > > John Ko > > e-mail: johnko@canada.com I ran a very barren installation of 2.2.5 on even less than that... Basically, you'll probably just want to go with the bin, man and possibly compat22 distributions. While it's normally not considered a good practice, in your case (especially since you are just "curiously installing it"), it may be wise to allocate the whole drive (i.e. dangerously dedicated) to FreeBSD, and make one / slice, and a small swap slice (perhaps 24-32M or so... Depending on how much memory you plan to chew up) If you make separate /, /var, /usr, ... partitions, you'll be wasting more space than you can afford. Sadly, you'll likely have to forego X windows :-) If you've still got room free, it will probably be worth it to install the kernel sources, build a custom kernel, then delete the source tree. Alternatively, you could go with ONE slice and swap to a file, but that may not gain you much, besides the headache you might get if you've never tried it before :-) Or... with drives being so cheap these days, phone up your local used computer store and ask them what they have. Surely your curiosity is worth that much :-) -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Technical and Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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