From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 14:35:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu26-228-058.nc.rr.com [66.26.228.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A0937B403 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6NLT1v03646; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:29:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:29:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Laidler Cc: Subject: Re: Newbie Installing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010723172504.X2405-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1.1 GB should be fine. I would install the FAT32 part. first, then boot up, and put FreeBSD on the rest of the disk. If memory servers, a base X install with kernel source is about 650 MB. Joe Clarke On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Laidler wrote: > Hi, > > I am thinking of exploring the world of FreeBSD so I have decided to go > ahead and install FreeBSD4.3 on a laptop parition of 1.11gigs. First thing I > would like to know is if this is enough for the base and X. Second, I want > to install on a Fat32 partition so, sould I just boot from a win32 boot > disk, format the drive, reboot and stick in the FreeBSD CD? > > Thanks for all your help > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message