From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 4 14:42:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08516 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (root@attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08511 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by attila.stevens-tech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3.1) with SMTP id RAA08337; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:40:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:40:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Wei Weng To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie question In-Reply-To: <343693B4.2781E494@est.is> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA08512 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I dont know what I did wrong. But I got something like /mnt mount error stuff when I was trying to install ports collections.(a big part of it) And I got error "can't create /tmp/******" when I was going to config X windows. So, do I need to set up /tmp directory in my partition or it is already in / mounted? And how about my /mnt directory? Thank you for replying. ja ne ************************************************************ Wei Weng & A N NIIIM MEEEE * Box s-1398 & A A NN N I MM MM * Stevens Institute of Technology& A A N N N I M M MEEEE * Hoboken, NJ 07030 & AAAAAAAN NN I M M * wweng@stevens-tech.edu &A A NIIIM MEEEE * ************************************************************ On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, [iso-8859-1] Žoršur Ivarsson wrote: > Wei Weng wrote: > > > > Hi. > > How big should I set up for my /usr if I have like 1500 MB partition for > > freeBSD? Does freeBSD have something like /home /boot? I have tried the > > fdisk in freebsd and the (a)uto command in it, and it gave 64MB swap 32MB > > /, 120MB /var and the rest(about 1300MB) /usr. I wonder where I can put my > > /home in. And does anyone try to install all the port collections in? How > > big will that be? I always got error(install package*** error) through the > > installation I wonder does that mean I dont have enuff disk space for it? > > thanx > > > For my opinion you can use this "AS IS" for newbie, your /home will be > linked to > /usr/home. > If you know how how much space you need for /home then you should take > that space > leaving at least 600 to 800 Meg for /usr if you are going to fiddle with > lot of > packages or ports. > > Extract your ports tarball in /usr so you will get /usr/ports directory. > > This is my disk configuration: > /dev/wd0a 49231 32513 12780 72% / > /dev/wd0s2 308280 243584 64696 79% /dos my shared dos > partition - I run winNT and win95 on same disk > /dev/sd0s2e 654217 585267 16613 97% /master my area to > make cdrom disks (trash area) > /dev/sd0s1e 1339573 850789 381619 69% /home as is > /dev/wd0s3f 835775 750282 18631 98% /usr > /dev/wd0s3e 59471 3513 51201 6% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > /dev/wd2s1f 2864422 350450 2284819 13% /usr2 I am building > 3.0 area here for multiboot > /dev/wd2s1e 29727 933 26416 3% /var2 > /dev/wd2s1a 31775 13201 16032 45% /root2 > > I hope this will help > > Thordur Ivarsson > thivars@est.is >