From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 18:03:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA29389 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:03:57 -0800 Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.73]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA29380 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:03:53 -0800 Received: from ellis.uchicago.edu (ellis.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.62]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.7.1/8.6.4) with ESMTP id QAA24250 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:14:02 -0600 (CST) Received: (spfarrel@localhost) by ellis.uchicago.edu (8.7.1/8.6.4) id PAA04870 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:58:02 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Farrell Message-Id: <199511282158.PAA04870@ellis.uchicago.edu> Subject: nfs install - space and packages required? To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:58:00 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i find it disturbing that after 15 minutes of looking at your web site and ftp site, and going through the installation readmes, i can't find the answer to the most basic question i have: WHICH PACKAGES DO I NEED TO RETRIEVE TO PREPARE FOR AN NFS INSTALLATION, AND HOW MUCH SPACE DO THEY REQUIRE? i'd expect this to be a routine question. with slackware/linux, this is the first thing you see, and can prepare accordingly. i've found discussion of how to repartition your DOS harddisk on the fly, yet it is not mentioned how much space is required. this seems very backwards to me. obviously i looked at the bin directory, and noticed several dozen files with useless names. why do you do this? what's wrong with bin usr.bin usr.local.bin and such like netbsd? or what's wrong with having it upfront which disk-sets are needed (a n ,etc like for slackware)? is this a marketing scam to get people to buy your CDROM's? sorry - i was just planning on putting freebsd on a revived 486 box, and would like to prepare by downloading the required dirs onto my sparc, and couldn't believe how frustrating it was to find out how much space i'd need, and what to get. anyway, i'm repeating myself... -- Stephen Farrell The Ben May Institute The University of Chicago Image Analysis & Web Admin. email:spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu voice:312-702-0656 fax:312-702-6260 home:312-288-8149 http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/spfarrel