Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:37:18 -0400 From: "Brent Bailey" <misterb@cybertours.com> To: <DAlSault@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does install slice or partition or whatever? Or do I have to do it first? Message-ID: <008d01c11c32$2eb15280$0600a8c0@pretorian> References: <fe.a027d94.289bda8f@aol.com>
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when you insert the boot floppies ( or if your machine supports booting off CDROM) the install or better known as sysinstall ...will let you setup you partions OR slices ..using fdisk. you can also choose to use default partition sizes...BUT i found that the defaults make the /var and /root partitions smaller than i like...so i chose my own sizes like the following: im using a 4 gig drive so..... / <---- root i made 100 megs - depending on size of drive you can make bigger ..default is like 40 megs or something /swap <---- i made the swap same as the amout of RAM on the machine /var <----- /var i made 1 gig /usr <----- i made the remainder of the disk good luck B ----- Original Message ----- From: <DAlSault@aol.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 6:44 AM Subject: Does install slice or partition or whatever? Or do I have to do it first? I'm an absolute newbie. I've got my floppies here with the images but I'm afraid to start the install process because I have no idea whether or not I should have run some kind of disk slicing or partitioning program first. Does the install destroy my windows98 os and apps, or does it automatically slice my disk and place itself in the unused memory portion? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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