Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:16:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Tian Siyuan <tsy@iist.unu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help - installation on a old PC with limited hard disk space Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132215280.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35F9D30B.FFEA9C6@iist.unu.edu>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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