From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 3 13:36:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E4115171 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp71.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.71]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24008; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:19:23 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: tw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Novice FreeBSD install In-Reply-To: <377E8956.EDCF0DCF@nabi.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm wondering if my partitions are not sized correctly or if I don't > have a large enough HD. I'm installing onto a 540MB disk which I though > would be big enough although I can't find anywhere that says what the > minimum space is. This looks to be exactly your problem. > I have tried making the /usr partition as large as possible and also > using the default both with the same result. Here is what the default > is: > > > Mount_____Size > / 32mb > swap 261mb > /var 30mb > /usr 193mb Since your working with so little space I would not use /var at all (in most machines you shouldn't have it seperate anyways.) Upon install /var will automatically be symlinked into /usr/var. You'll also want to resize your swap down. 64MB should probally do you, unless you have 128megs of RAM or more. Everything else should go to /usr. Even then though you're really cutting it close to be installing the X Windows system too. :( On my machine it takes roughly 600 megs for the full system and all the applications I installed. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message