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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx10!jclancy From: jclancy@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Joseph Clancy) Subject: Out of disk space [FreeBSD] Message-ID: <1994Jan13.040919.13276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 04:09:19 GMT Lines: 22 I do not want to devote my entire HD to FreeBSD, so I partitioned it like this: 65 megs: FreeBSD 25 megs: DOS 6 Within the FreeBSD partition, I created one large root filesystem and a smallish swap space. This is all just fine. I installed the mini-system via the boot floppies, everything's OK. I then loaded all ~20 mb of the bin_tgz.* distribution files onto a temp directory on the FreeBSD filesystem. Now I'm left with only ~20 mb. Of course, I won't have room for the extracted files, because they're compressed, right? What sould I do: 1) Try to load the bin_tgz files onto the DOS partition and mount it as a pcfs? (I tried but I don't know how to) 2) Figure out a way to extract the files but delete them as it goes, thus leaving room for the system? Your help is appreciated. Joseph -- Joseph Clancy / jclancy@nyx.cs.du.edu OR ui842@freenet.victoria.bc.ca