Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:21:28 +0200 From: eyesonly@xs4all.nl To: roberthuff@rcn.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk Message-ID: <200406211721280381.49B2076B@smtp.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <16598.3143.768397.119576@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <200406202130310201.456FADCF@smtp.xs4all.nl> <16598.3143.768397.119576@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 20-06-2004 at 18:14 Robert Huff wrote: >eyesonly@xs4all.nl writes: >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 >> MB hard disk. <snip> > First, a question: what do you want this machine to do? Hi, thanks! Fortunately, no special requirements at this stage. I simply want to use it, so it needs an OS - and FreeBSD certainly beats= DOS :-) > 852 MB should be enough. Go with a "Custom" installation, and >you'll need to be utterly ruthless about not installing unneeded >distribution sets. "Custom" installation scares me a little, as I don't really know what I'm= doing yet. I will try and read docs and probably start over lots of times (which is= fine with me). When I really get stuck can always ask again :-) regards Mark
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