From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 18:50:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E1A6716A41F for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:50:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 178B943D48 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:50:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2005 18:50:39 -0000 Received: from VPNPOOL01-0149.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (EHLO localhost) [128.176.150.159] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 26 Sep 2005 20:50:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #351132 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:50:36 +0200 From: jonas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050926205036.17075c0d@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050926054805.GA34711@flame.pc> References: <20050926053236.90960.qmail@web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20050926054805.GA34711@flame.pc> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.11 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:50:42 -0000 > > I suppose one GigaByte should be enough for the base system of 5.4, > > isn't it? > > Definitely. The full base system (as I mentioned above) takes about > 170 MB of disk space on i386 installations. hi! i would just like to add that it's a good idea to put rapidly changing filesystems/directories (/var/log, /tmp and so on) on memory- filesystems because usbdrives don't survive as many writeoperations as HDs do. cya, jonas