Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:01:25 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "Michl" Alexandre Salim <michel@salin.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query about planned install Message-ID: <E14L34f-0004Ro-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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I can't help you with much of this .. but ny tuppence worth is below.. Cliff > Hello, > > I am rather new at using FreeBSD, having used Linux for the past three ye> ars or so as my primary OS (getting that out of the way to 'set' the leve> l of discussion). I currently have FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE installed on a sma> ll-ish 2G partition, and having dabbled with it I'm almost ready to re-in> stall it in a larger partition, as soon as my new hard drive arrives. > > Any suggestions about partitioning welcome. Currently planning to have ei> ther root, usr and home, or just root and home. You might want to consider having a seperate /var, depending on how mucal mail, news, logs you process.. But the main reason I sen> d this query is regarding building the ports collection. I have access to> a fast Internet connection at the university but the connection for my P> C itself is a 9.6 Kbps GSM using a mobile phone (so I have rather non-sta> ndard hardwares including an Elan P-series desktop PCMCIA reader - part o> f the reason I'm abandoning Linux is the mess they have made with PCMCIA > support recently). Let me detail my current plan. > > 1. Install 4.2-RELEASE > 2. Download latest ports tgz in computer room, burn to CD > 3. Install ports > 2. Use CVSup (set up CTM for later regular use) to sync with 4.2-STABLE a> nd sync the ports tree > 3. make World in /usr/src > 4. recompile kernel > 5. test > 6. *this is the biggie*. In /usr/ports, do 'make fetch-list', copy the li> st to floppy, download all the files in the list in the computer room and> transfer in CD-Rs. > 7. Build ports > > This raises some questions. > 1. How much space to allocate for the ports' sources? My new hard disk is> 20 Gig, planning to use it for FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS and QNX. Old hard di> sk for Windows and Solaris. Oops, flame bait :). I am thinking of having > a shared partition for use by FreeBSD and Linux... perhaps ext2 since Lin> ux's ufs support is not certified stable? There are warnings in the FBSD kernel configuration files about EXT2 support, something abou tit "lagging behind" .. :) > > 2. Will the above plan work? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Michel Salim > > Michèl Salim > __________________________________________ > Get your free domain name and domain-based > e-mail from Namezero.com > New! Namezero Plus domains now available. > Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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