Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:22:47 PDT From: "Barbara Scott" <barbls@hotmail.com> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition sizes (was: Questions) Message-ID: <19990722182249.78762.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Greg, Thanks for your response. I have two problems with the FreeBSD installation: 1) Installation of a Belkin 3-button mouse (on COM2) does not work, whatever mouse protocol I choose in sysinstall. 2) Trying to install the 'sample desktop', I got a 'write failed, file system is full' message. This occured after <ctrl-c> the desktop installation because I needed to install compat22 as I had no aout libs. I then tried to install compat22 and got the 'write failed' message. My original installation had been of the User distribution, with the GNOME desktop. My hard disk size is 1.2, 500MB for Windows, the rest for UNIX (40MB for /, 180MB for swap and 500MB for /usr). Output from my machine: uname -a FreeBSD myname.my.domain 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 18 04:05:08 GMT 1999 jkh@cathair:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 df Filesystem 1K-Blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted On /dev/wd0s2a 39647 20628 15848 57% / /dev/wd0s2e 498703 364581 94228 79% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc du 282 ./GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/non-configurable 283 ./GNUstep/Library/AfterStep 284 ./GNUstep/Library 285 ./GNUstep 1 ./.gnome/accels 3 ./.gnome 1 ./.gnome-private 298 . Look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Barbara Scott (barbls@hotmail.com) >From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> >CC: Barbara Scott <barbls@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Partition sizes (was: Questions) >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:15:55 +0930 > >On Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 13:33:05 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Barbara Scott wrote: > > > >> I had set up the partition map for the UNIX slices as 40 MB for > >> /, 180 MB for swap and 500 for /usr. I had requested the GNOME desktop > >> environment during the initial installation, along with the DES >security > >> package. > > > > Your / partition size is way, *WAY* too small, since it has to hold > > /tmp as well as /var information on it. > >Your partition size for / is fine. You don't want /tmp or /var/tmp on >it, you should make symlinks into /usr for them. > > > You basically haven't got enough space to hold temporary files to do > > anything big. You could possible add a /var and/or /tmp partition > > on; > >You definitely don't want to do this. > > > or resize everything to one big / partition. > >That's an option. > >What was the original question? I don't normally read messages with a >subject line like "Questions". > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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