From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 20 19:30:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA70416A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:30:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out2.xs4all.nl (smtp-out2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F4A43D58 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:30:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eyesonly@xs4all.nl) Received: from alden-0b614aab4 (revelation.xs4all.nl [194.109.220.1]) by smtp-out2.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5KJUIO5074827 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:30:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <200406202130310201.456FADCF@smtp.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:30:31 +0200 From: eyesonly@xs4all.nl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Partition sizes for small harddisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:30:20 -0000 Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard= disk. According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. However, both the "User" and (retried) "Minimal" distributions left me with= no space in /usr I used the default partitioning (entire disk) and said "No" to the ports= and linux compatibility prompts. Assuming that the defaults are optimized for larger disks, how would I best= divide the available space? thanks Mark