Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:36:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Steve Farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nfs install - space and packages required? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951129153539.7811F-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511282158.PAA04870@ellis.uchicago.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Steve Farrell wrote: > i find it disturbing that after 15 minutes of looking at your web site > and ftp site, and going through the installation readmes, i can't find > the answer to the most basic question i have: WHICH PACKAGES DO I NEED > TO RETRIEVE TO PREPARE FOR AN NFS INSTALLATION, AND HOW MUCH SPACE DO > THEY REQUIRE? i'd expect this to be a routine question. with > slackware/linux, this is the first thing you see, and can prepare > accordingly. i've found discussion of how to repartition your DOS > harddisk on the fly, yet it is not mentioned how much space is > required. this seems very backwards to me. > > obviously i looked at the bin directory, and noticed several dozen files > with useless names. why do you do this? what's wrong with bin usr.bin > usr.local.bin and such like netbsd? or what's wrong with having it > upfront which disk-sets are needed (a n ,etc like for slackware)? is > this a marketing scam to get people to buy your CDROM's? > > sorry - i was just planning on putting freebsd on a revived 486 box, and > would like to prepare by downloading the required dirs onto my sparc, and > couldn't believe how frustrating it was to find out how much space i'd > need, and what to get. Steve, I don't have any experience with the Linux distributions. FreeBSD's distribution doesn't break out the nfs stuff, it's part of the main set, all the bin stuff. > > anyway, i'm repeating myself... > > -- > Stephen Farrell The Ben May Institute > The University of Chicago Image Analysis & Web Admin. > email:spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu voice:312-702-0656 fax:312-702-6260 > home:312-288-8149 http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/spfarrel > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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