Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 02:11:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Khelbin Sunvold <khelbin@ntplx.net> To: bsd@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD newbie installer...almost ready Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970910013411.12836C-100000@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <199709100224.MAA01108@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997 bsd@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au wrote: > pentium 120 with a unix partition of around 450 Mb > It has a 1.1 Gb IDE + CD 8*(mitsumi) IDE. 2 serial ports and a Kingston 16 bit (NDis2) net card. > 2 FDloppy drives and a SB16 creative compliant sound card. According to something somewhere on freebsd.org (excuse my incredible vagueness. heh) you normally would want a swap partition of between 2 and 4 times the amount of memory you have. UNIX Unleashed (and other literature) often claim that the de facto swap partition should start at twice the amount of RAM and then you tweak from there. You should have a rather large /usr slice and the root slices on the boxes i've played with are generally between 15 - 50Mb. You may also want to have slices for /home, /tmp, and /var. The var slice holds the system log files (so maybe take the size of this into account if you want accounting on), large temp files (in /var/tmp), and spool directories for queueing email and files to be sent to the printer (so if you print real big files make this a little larger too). The rest of the slices aren't very tricky in figuring out what to do with them but even if you do screw it up you can use sym links to make it appear as is you didn't screw up and there shouldn't be a problem. > By the" system file thing" I have read that in order to make major > changes to FreeBSD setup e.g. modems etc... I need the system files > etc...Is it to do with a kernel re-build (whatever a kernel > is...looks a bit like a windows 95 registry?) > So I guess I need to know if I need to setup the full system files in > the install program. Well the unix kernel is basically the heart of the OS. It provides many low-level/system-level functions such as scheduling processes and carrying out all input and output. I'm not sure what the win95 registry is. :) You may very well have to re-compile your kernel at some point (and should!) but I don't recall having to do that manually in freebsd 2.2.2 or freebsd 3.0-snap when first installing the OS.. the installation program does it for you. You should be able to use the config command to help you re-compile if necessary and I know that freebsd 2.2.2 and the 3.0-snap both allow you to visually add/remove drivers with the -c flag at the boot: prompt (this is what i meant to say before when i told you /stand/sysinstall.. sorry).
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