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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!op.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 floppy install problem Date: 15 Dec 1996 11:06:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 40 Message-ID: <590m32$26j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <584qre$q96@mailman.xilinx> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32646 lou@xilinx.com (Lou Sanchez-Chopitea) wrote: > I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD 2.1.5 from floppies. I have a > 486DX-40 system 8MB RAM 2 SCSI drives (80MB, 87MB) Adaptec AHA-1522 3Com 3c503 > MDA/Hercules. > > I made the install floppy and used novice install, used defaults for dedicated > disk geometry, and it complains about not enough space for /var(?) partition, You can't use the automagic disk partitioning feature with such a small disk. (The automagic will only consider a single disk anyway.) So what, create your filesystems manually. Put /, swap, and (if you want it to be a separate filesystem) /var on sd0, and /usr on sd1. I would do it as follows: sd0 / 60 MB sd0 swap remaining space (20 MB) sd1 /usr all (87 MB) Ignore the warning about not having a separate /var. You might probably want to move out /usr/src/sys/compile into /var/sys/compile (and leave a symlink into /usr/src for this) in case you wanna compile a custom kernel, which is highly recommended for such a small (RAM-wise) machine: cd /usr/src/sys rm -rf compile mkdir /var/sys/compile ln -s /var/sys/compile . cd i386/conf <continue configuring and building kernel as described in the handbook> -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)