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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Just Installed FreeBSD: Problems, Suggestions Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 17:28:18 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2q52n5.3d5.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <AC09910F8A9A03B0.2386825DE4007D03.DFCD734D8675882D@library-proxy.airnews.net> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test58 (13 May 97) Originator: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42221 In article <AC09910F8A9A03B0.2386825DE4007D03.DFCD734D8675882D@library-proxy.airnews.net>, andrew fabbro <afabbro@umich.edu> wrote: [snip] Sorry, can't really comment on any of the preceding. >(*) /usr/bin/ee as the default editor????? Well, it *is*, as the name implies, an easy editor to use. Good for beginners. Imagine all the posts we'd be seeing here if they made vi the default. ;-) >(*) The default partitions can be inadequate if you install a lot of >packages. Perhaps I just went starky and installed too many packages, >but I ran out of room on / . I think even with fewer packages, I might >have been left without enough /tmp space. (I think it was linux_devel's >files on /compat that broke the camel's back). There's a section in the book "Installing and Running FreeBSD" that deals with this issue (you *do* have the book, don't you?). Basically, your root partition *should* be fairly small, with /var running a close second in most cases, and /usr getting the lion's share of your disk space. The magic word here is "link", as in "symbolic". Your /tmp dir should *not* be in the root partition. Very bad. Link it to /usr/tmp, and all's well. >(*) BTW, would it save any memory to trim the number of pseudo-terminals >down? How many are needed for a single-user machine that does PPP? I get by with the basic four, the last being reserved for xdm. >(*) I know it would make them huge, but it would be nice to have the >source of the packages, or at least pointers (e.g., URLs) to sources. Check the ports collection. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads