From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 11:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03402 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03386 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA15338; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:47:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:47:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd cc: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd wrote: > The FreeBSD partition we have further partitioned > (for the system files) thus,using the disk label > editor : > / 33MB > swap 44MB > /usr 339MB > /var 200MB(approx) That's a big /var. Are you planning on handling a lot of mail? my systems often have a 50mb /var. > The steps we followed to this are : > 1.choose post-configure system after FreeBSD installation > 2.in the next menu,choose packages. > 3.in this menu choose all available packages > 4.in this menu,some ( very few) packages(such as zip,unzip,zoo) > are already chosen.We tried choosing all,but the > installation failed(*) for all except ones that were > already chosen. This is a known bug. Don't install packages using sysinstall; boot your system, mount the cdrom, then use the 'pkg_add' to install packages. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet..uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major