Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:23:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: charlespeters@tecpro.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small Hard Drive Installation Message-ID: <19981022102315.E1219@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000901bdfd11$bd4c2f80$c8730418@ci1000971-d.sptnbrg1.sc.home.com>; from Charles A. Peters on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 12:42:05PM -0400 References: <000901bdfd11$bd4c2f80$c8730418@ci1000971-d.sptnbrg1.sc.home.com>
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On Wednesday, 21 October 1998 at 12:42:05 -0400, Charles A. Peters wrote: > I have a small hard disk drive (80MB) that I would > like to install freebsd on. This machine will be used > as a dialout/dialup gateway using ppp -auto -alial > ispname. This machine will also have one network card > and one 56k Modem, and 8MB of RAM. > > I need to know approximately how I should slice up my > drives, and which partitions are required. Please > comment on the following partitioning scheme: > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs > ----------- ----------- ----- ----------- ----------- > ----------- ----- ------ > wd0s1a / 10 UFS Y > wd0s1b <none> 10 SWAP > wd0s1e /usr 30 UFS Y > wd0s1f /var 30 UFS Y > > > How much space is required on each partition to > complete a minimal installation via ftp? Don't even start to think of multiple partitions on a drive this size. The only problem you're going to have is deciding how much swap to use. 10 MB is not much. > I have attempted to configure the same type of system using PicoBSD, > but have had no luck, What problems did you have? > If I use a 386SX-33 with 4MB of ram to build this > router/gateway, will this system be quick enough to > service a network with 10 Windoze 95 boxes browsing > the internet, and using email. Well, the limiting factor will be the modem. I don't think the hardware would be a problem. I know of one system running on a 386DX-20 which is doing this job quite happily, along with mail, name and web servers. But it needs more swap for that. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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