Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:50:28 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small spaces Message-ID: <20000318215028.C15998@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net> References: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:40:14PM -0500, Laurence Berland wrote:
> 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
> 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?
32 is pretty minimal, I think; / will use nearly all of that. You
should try to see if you can trim what's in /usr a bit. Have you made
sure to ditch the games, as well as X? If you skip your kernel source
and do your compiles on another box (which I think you'd want to do
anyway!) you could ditch the kernel source, and then all the essential
binaries should be sure to fit into the remaining space of /usr.
It should be doable; I had a very similar config (486-120, 16MB RAM,
240MB HD) running just a few months ago on OpenBSD 2.5, which is pretty
similar in size of essential binaries & data space. Similar
application, too - home network firewall, in my case with IP filtering
for a DSL connection. (After a bit it got to be too much of a pain, so
last month I bought the smallest new hard drive I could find; this
turned out to be about 4GB, and space is no longer an issue.)
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net
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