Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:07:47 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small spaces Message-ID: <20000318220747.F5039@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>; from stuyman@confusion.net on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:40:14PM -0500 References: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>
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Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> probably said: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 486 I've got lying around to > use as a NATing firewall for my home network, but I've only got a 200 > Meg HD around. I'm gonna go get another HD later, but right now I'd I had a 2.2.something 486 as a dialup router many moons ago, on a 160Mb disk. > like to get running with just that. So far I've been trying with 16 to > swap and various other combinations, but it always seems to run out of > /usr space. I figure / should be at least 32MB, and the rest (~152MB) > goes to /usr. I'm trying to install the binaries, the docs, and the > kernel source (but not the rest of the source). Any idea if it's even > possible? Should I shrink down the root partition more? I've done You could leave /usr in / and share the spare space ... and go through the binaries deleting things you won't need on another disk (or via NFS) ? A minimal NAT box doesn't need that much in the way of binaries. > loads of installs at this point, but all on HDs with at least a gig for > FreeBSD. Any ideas where I can get a bigger HD that's still under the > limit for old BIOSen? Thanks in advance for any help. You could get a cheap bootable scsi card like the adaptec 1542 (from memory, ISA bootable) and drop a 1gb scsi disk in it ? That or look at picobsd ? P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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