Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 04:57:47 -0400 (EDT) From: djv@bedford.net To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: djv@bedford.net, mdgabriel@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stumped at install Message-ID: <199808300857.EAA29787@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <19980830175355.C606@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 30, 98 05:53:55 pm"
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Greg Lehey wrote
> 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
He said, Greg, "Plenty of disk". I qualified that as >1GB.
I said "general purpose".
> swap size is reasonable. I can't think of an earthy reason for a
> separate /tmp file system.
I can, but I'm not telling.
You win, Greg. Bye!
Dave
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