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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Tian Siyuan <tsy@iist.unu.edu>
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Subject: Re: help - installation on a old PC with limited hard disk space
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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Tian Siyuan wrote:

> 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?

I'd suggest using the 'monolithic' filesystem method -- create one
partition, /, using the entire space that you don't dedicate to swap.

So it should look like:

partition a:  /	     66MB
partition b:  swap   16MB


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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