From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 07:54:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26570 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme37.sunshine.net [209.17.178.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26559 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA01733; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:53:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: mdgabriel@hotmail.com cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: stumped at install In-Reply-To: <199808300857.EAA29787@lucy.bedford.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Aug 1998 djv@bedford.net wrote: => Greg Lehey wrote => > On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 2:54:01 -0400, CyberPeasant wrote: => > > Michael Gabriel wrote: => > >> I have recently acquired a copy of Freebsd 2.26. Only to be => > >> disappointed and frustrated with the install. I have a cdrom and plenty => > >> of disk space. When cued to alloted a certain amount of memory space => > >> (minimum being as you mention 20M) I'm at a loss as to "set" the => > >> specifics. (ie. /, /swap/, /var) as required. It seems a hassle and I => > >> don't want it to be so. Can you help. => > > => > > Assuming this is for general purpose use, and by lots of disk I mean => > >> 1GB. => > > => > > / 64 MB => > > /var 64 MB => > > swap 128 MB => > > /usr what's left => > > => > > you might want a separate partition for /tmp and /home => > > maybe 64MB for /tmp? => > => > Why? You've specified too many file systems already. Without knowing => > what he wants to use the machine for (or even how big his disk => > partition is), you can't recommend anything, though a guess at the You got a good variety of responses, and I had not thought of approaching an install such as Greg had suggested but it sounds prudent (of course he did right the book :) ). By making only one filesystem you don't risk ending up with to much space in `/' and `var', and not enough space in `/usr'. I have always used the Auto settings in the novice install and then used those as a guide to setting my filesystem sizes. It may work for you. I will definately keep Gregs suggestion in mind on future minimum installs. Hope this helps. Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message