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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!visi.com!mr.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!gsl-stkh-ns.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news1.transpac.net!news5.transpac.net!news.netg.se!funny.bahnhof.se!news.corpcomm.net!news From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SEX Date: 09 Mar 1997 04:14:37 -0600 Organization: Corporate Communications Lines: 33 Sender: zach@murkwood.gaffaneys.com Message-ID: <87u3mltlrm.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> References: <332072CE.5A56@postoffice.ptd.net> <5fqqk4$9f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup13.gaffaneys.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.15/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36779 haszlaki@students.uiuc.edu (eric richard haszlakiewicz) writes: > Joe Eggert (eggertj@postoffice.ptd.net) wrote: > : Right now, my system has Win95 and WinNT 4.0. I threw in a spare 160MB > : hard drive to install FreeBSD on. But after the install, I can't get > : the F? from the boot manager. What exactly am I to do during the > hmm.. what boot manager are you using? I suppose the WinNT one. I would probably split it up into 32 Meg Swap, and 10-20 Meg /var, and the balance to put as the root partition. > : install to get it to install corectly? Or, do I need a third party > : software? Plus, one other small question. I am newer than a newbie at > : UNIX. How exactly should I partion the 160? As of now, I have 20M for > : /, 32M for swap, 50M for /usr, and 60M for /dev. Is this correct? > hm.. Well, you don't really need 60M for /dev. In fact, you But what about all the data that gets sent to /dev/null? doesn't the computer have to store it someplace before it gets dumped? :-) More seriously, I just assumed he typo'd /dev for /var. In any case, doesn't need to be very big for only one user. (I am only using ~2.5Meg on my /var partition). The only reason you might want to put more there is some program might need a bit of temporary storage in /var/tmp. But, since he only has 160M total, there probably aren't many of those programs that will fit. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.