From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 5:46:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from labrador.cslab.vt.edu (labrador.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1601506E for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 05:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@cslab.vt.edu) Received: from snowcow.cslab.vt.edu (jobaldwi@snowcow.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.27]) by labrador.cslab.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA55226; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:46:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@cslab.vt.edu) Received: from localhost (jobaldwi@localhost) by snowcow.cslab.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA61681; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:43:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@cslab.vt.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: snowcow.cslab.vt.edu: jobaldwi owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:43:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "John H. Baldwin" To: "Peter.D.Hulme" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: partitions In-Reply-To: <000801bf1206$a2e23260$502931ca@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Peter.D.Hulme wrote: [ cc'd to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org ] > I have an unused DOS partition "F" 850 Mb, running under Win 95. > > Will this be enough or would you suggest I reduce the E partition that > has WIN 95 data files (but is far from full) and add to "F" making say > 1.2 Mb for the new OS ? > > Total HD is 4 Mb C, D , E, F > > Peter Hulme , Taupo , New Zealand It depends on what you plan to do with BSD. If you plan to do a lot of work with it, then you might want to have 1.2 Gig, but if all you want is to run X and a few apps, then 850 MB will probably be sufficient. John Baldwin jobaldwi@cslab.vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message