Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:20:16 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: "Thomas Good" <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Users in NYC? Message-ID: <000601bfc3f8$da872960$58e17ad1@leegold1> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000522090251.12633A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>
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>snip.... >Where are you folks located? I'm in Brooklyn, Actually pretty near the Verrazano N. Bridge. Grew up in Queens. > ...snip > I think a Free Unix User Group is preferable to FBSD only. I love linux > and the guys on the other lists typically bash us linuxers. It's rather > petty. Anyway, no boundaries, right? Right. As a matter of fact I'm seeing references to the fact that some linux software can run on fbsd w/just a little "prodding". One thing I'd like to talk about is the internet browser situation for fbsd. Is Netscape the only choice? I would tend to want to invsestigate a stable ver. of navigator and use pine for mail - something like that(?). then there's always Opera. I've played w/it alot on w9x/nt w/mixed results. > > slices, (vs partitions, waht's the difference - i'd really like to know_ > >snip......... My walnut creek cd's should be coming this week. I'm hearing alot about that dos partion you cite below. So you just make a small partiton at the "start" of the disk (dos needs to be 1st i assume), and load Ms-dos, or only would one fdisk/format it to fat16 and use the "sys" cmd to get he dos system files on there. I'd also need a boot manager of some kind too w/multiple OS's. Yeah this good -just what I need below - thanks btw,You didn't mention the swap - what's the "lowdown" on /swap? my experience with FBSD and AT&T Unix (which is where BSD got the slice > terminology) a partition is a section of the hard disk wherein an Operating > System resides. That section is further subdivived into 'slices' wherein > major components of the filesystem (directory tree structure) reside. > That is: On box1 I have a dos maintenance partition (where I keep a dos > command interpreter [command.com] and a boot loader). Next up I have > a big partition where I keep FBSD. These are two partitions. Within the > FBSD partition I have some slices of differing sizes. I follow std unix. > So I have a 'root' partition of 50 M. This holds the kernel and sysinstall > (both in /stand) and some other goodies. But it is small. Then I have > a slice of 20 M that is my 'mount point' for the /var directory, so named > as its contents are 'variable'. I dislike strongly FBSD's sizing scheme > that makes this slice so tiny because I move large database files around > using UUCP (unix to unix copy) and /var fills up too easily... > Anyway, my third slice on the FBSD partition is /usr. This is a huge slice. > Why? All of the code used by ordinary users goes here, as do the home directories. > /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, and /usr/home can become gigantic. So, this > slice is set to 1G on the machine I'm describing. > I did not choose this sizing scheme, I let FBSD do it. If I were to do it > again I would shrink /usr a bit in favour of /var to give myself less > headaches (I'm a DBA and need the space for my code and data). > > All the tutorials assume unix sysadmin knowledge - that's a stone cold fact. Sorry, my statement there is a little strong. There is some good intro documentation on freebsd and unix in general out there -i'm getting alot of links together on this. > > > Anyway i'm totally for the FBSD newbie > > > group, just let me know when! > > yes, let's try to get this going...BTW, feel free to send me questions > and I will try to help. I'd suggest you do it offline tho so we don't > get scolded for using a list designed for non-technical discussion to > do tech talk. Great. Thanks. Lee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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