Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:21:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: T Judd <tjudd01@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Typical FreeBSD 4.0 Installation Message-ID: <XFMail.000727112119.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20000727080058.25067.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 27-Jul-00 T Judd wrote: > I'm about to install FreeBSD, i think... > > I have a 10GB disk, and I want 2/3rds of it to be on Win*, and 1/3 on > FreeBSD. That means approximately 3.17 GB of data for FreeBSD, is that a > "healthy" amount for a user? > > Thanks. > 3Gigs will do perfectly. My first intallation was under 1G and I used it heavily. Then I installed many ports to find out what they were and did not remove them after testing, so I ran out of space:( A tru mini-but-practical requires about 300M, you can sqeeze it down to 120M or so but that is clearly no what you are after. Just make certain that the FreeBSD slice starts within the first 1024 cylinders - or you won't be able to boot from it. A thought: Why not let FreeBSD use the entire disk... /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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