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Date:      Sun, 18 May 1997 16:04:09 -0700
From:      "Bob Clay, 619/822-0555" <rclay@ucsd.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partitions
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.16.19970518160409.2ee70070@popmail.ucsd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199705172102.XAA00622@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
References:  <3.0.1.16.19970517111515.2c17c2d0@popmail.ucsd.edu>

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The default made swap 41 MB, which was more than twice the memory.  Using
swap = memory size, and everything else in / worked OK.


At 11:02 PM 5/17/97 +0200, Wolfgang Helbig wrote:
>> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a 486 with a tiny disk (81 MB).  It
>> will be a single user system.  Any suggestions on partition sizes for /,
>> swap, /var, /usr?
>
>Try the default suggested by the installation program.
>The swap should be at least as big as the memory.
>
>Wolfgang
>
>



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