Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:47:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd <dbrci@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970220114553.15253J-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.970220193505.14733A-100000@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd wrote: > The FreeBSD partition we have further partitioned > (for the system files) thus,using the disk label > editor : > / 33MB > swap 44MB > /usr 339MB > /var 200MB(approx) That's a big /var. Are you planning on handling a lot of mail? my systems often have a 50mb /var. > The steps we followed to this are : > 1.choose post-configure system after FreeBSD installation > 2.in the next menu,choose packages. > 3.in this menu choose all available packages > 4.in this menu,some ( very few) packages(such as zip,unzip,zoo) > are already chosen.We tried choosing all,but the > installation failed(*) for all except ones that were > already chosen. This is a known bug. Don't install packages using sysinstall; boot your system, mount the cdrom, then use the 'pkg_add' to install packages. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet..uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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