From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 01:24:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26607 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 01:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26566 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 01:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA18300; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:53:56 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA00807; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:53:55 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980830175355.C606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:53:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: djv@bedford.net, Michael Gabriel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stumped at install References: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com> <199808300654.CAA29333@lucy.bedford.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808300654.CAA29333@lucy.bedford.net>; from CyberPeasant on Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 02:54:01AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 yous 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 swap size is reasonable. I can't think of an earthy reason for a separate /tmp file system. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message