Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:44:10 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small spaces Message-ID: <200003191745.JAA09610@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:40:14 EST." <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>
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In message <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>, Laurence Berland writes:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 486 I've got lying around to
> use as a NATing firewall for my home network, but I've only got a 200
> Meg HD around. I'm gonna go get another HD later, but right now I'd
> like to get running with just that. So far I've been trying with 16 to
> swap and various other combinations, but it always seems to run out of
> /usr space. I figure / should be at least 32MB, and the rest (~152MB)
> goes to /usr. I'm trying to install the binaries, the docs, and the
> kernel source (but not the rest of the source). Any idea if it's even
> possible? Should I shrink down the root partition more? I've done
> loads of installs at this point, but all on HDs with at least a gig for
> FreeBSD. Any ideas where I can get a bigger HD that's still under the
> limit for old BIOSen? Thanks in advance for any help.
My 486/33 looks like this. X, games, /compat, and /usr/share are
served off my P120 server. Swap on this machine is 43 MB backing 20 MB
RAM. The root disk, which contains /var and /usr, is a 200 MB slice
which is 43% full.
For a pure firewall machine, don't install X, games, info files, so you
should be able to run it stand-alone.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC
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