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Subject: Re: Partitions
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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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>