From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 18 19: 8: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D37D37B66F for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:07:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12WW4B-0003oQ-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:07:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:07:47 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small spaces Message-ID: <20000318220747.F5039@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>; from stuyman@confusion.net on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:40:14PM -0500 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence Berland probably said: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 486 I've got lying around to > use as a NATing firewall for my home network, but I've only got a 200 > Meg HD around. I'm gonna go get another HD later, but right now I'd I had a 2.2.something 486 as a dialup router many moons ago, on a 160Mb disk. > like to get running with just that. So far I've been trying with 16 to > swap and various other combinations, but it always seems to run out of > /usr space. I figure / should be at least 32MB, and the rest (~152MB) > goes to /usr. I'm trying to install the binaries, the docs, and the > kernel source (but not the rest of the source). Any idea if it's even > possible? Should I shrink down the root partition more? I've done You could leave /usr in / and share the spare space ... and go through the binaries deleting things you won't need on another disk (or via NFS) ? A minimal NAT box doesn't need that much in the way of binaries. > loads of installs at this point, but all on HDs with at least a gig for > FreeBSD. Any ideas where I can get a bigger HD that's still under the > limit for old BIOSen? Thanks in advance for any help. You could get a cheap bootable scsi card like the adaptec 1542 (from memory, ISA bootable) and drop a 1gb scsi disk in it ? That or look at picobsd ? P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message