From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 15:51:21 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 218F916A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:51:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA7D43D5A for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:51:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from [10.0.3.124] (aragorn.lan.elvandar.intranet [10.0.3.124]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A568210685E; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:50:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40D703E3.6070700@elvandar.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:50:59 +0200 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eyesonly@xs4all.nl References: <200406202130310201.456FADCF@smtp.xs4all.nl> <16598.3143.768397.119576@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200406211721280381.49B2076B@smtp.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200406211721280381.49B2076B@smtp.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: roberthuff@rcn.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:51:21 -0000 Hi Mark, > >> 852 MB should be enough. Go with a "Custom" installation, and >>you'll need to be utterly ruthless about not installing unneeded >>distribution sets. > > > "Custom" installation scares me a little, as I don't really know what I'm doing yet. > I will try and read docs and probably start over lots of times (which is fine with me). > When I really get stuck can always ask again :-) > > regards > Mark I installed a custom NetBSD version on a 420megabyte harddisk, and installed numberous FreeBSD installations (from 4.3 if i recall correctly) on a 1.2gb harddisk. With those two numbers i can figure you can install a minimum install of FreeBSD on your disk, and add some nice little features (the 420mb disk was running a firewall,dnsserver and a passthrough mailserver (With some low end checks that i didn't want to have on the actual mailserver behind it). This box also was a Sniffer in my network for extented period of time, logging everything to a SQL box behind it (on the management network ofcourse) , it had a lot of traffic passing through but it managed to work. So, the install size will be ok i think, your only issue might indeed be running into steps that might confuse you, reading the docs and asking us are good options. Goodluck :) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |remko@elvandar.org Reporter DSINet |remko@dsinet.org Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |remko@mostly-harmless.nl