Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:50:59 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: eyesonly@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk Message-ID: <40D703E3.6070700@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <200406211721280381.49B2076B@smtp.xs4all.nl> References: <200406202130310201.456FADCF@smtp.xs4all.nl> <16598.3143.768397.119576@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200406211721280381.49B2076B@smtp.xs4all.nl>
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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
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