From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 14:17:05 2003 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 3229537B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from asylum.org (asylum.org [208.13.58.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764A343F75 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@asylum.org) Received: from p139.asylum.org (p139.asylum.org [208.13.58.139]) by asylum.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2VMH2V15956; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:17:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dave@asylum.org) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030331165710.032eaa40@asylum.org> X-Sender: dave@asylum.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:17:04 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: dave In-Reply-To: <20030331213002.16167.qmail@web41415.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Hell of a time 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, 31 Mar 2003 22:17:06 -0000 At 04:30 PM 3/31/2003, you wrote: >Somebody pleeeaaasse help. > >I've been trying to install 5.0-RELEASE on an old Dell >600MHz P3. Sysinstall works fine, no issues there. No >issues at all until I get the final "do-or-die" >message and then whammo! There's a problem with >/mnt/usr. > >Also, the root partition takes a very large amount of >space. I've read the handbook, and also "Absolute BSD" >and they both indicate that the root partition should >take around 128MB of space. But my install won't take >that at all. I'm choosing to install "All", source, >executables, the whole shebang. But still, it doesn't >seem that the 1G of space I'm allocating jives at all >with the stated 128MB requirement? What's up with >that? What are the partition sizes allocated for freebsd? such as: ad0s1a root 128 ad0s1b swap 200 ad0s1e var 50 (numbers may be different) It sounds like you are filling up the 1gigabyte. The ports collection is about 200megs itself (and worth every byte). Try doing a minimal installation with only src code for the kernel. No ports/ Xwindows/other-src etc and see if that goes ok. You can always add other things later thru the sysinstall menu. When partitioning (disklabel editor) choose "A" autodefaults for all. If that works ok then you'll know it is the 1 Gig size that is the problem dave