Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:41:43 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small spaces Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003182228230.59441-100000@discover.siteplus.net> In-Reply-To: <38D43E0E.1DDECC10@confusion.net>
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I have seen a few messages in the mail archives about putting pico.bsd on small hardrives to implement a gateway. Also if you have another small hd lying around maybe even a 40mb you could then use the 200 just for /usr You don't have to worry about the bios limit as long as you keep the root low. I have used a number of 386 and 486 boards with large hard drives. I believe you could optionally install 2.2.8. It takes less space. Jim A little knowledge is a DANGEROUS thing James W. Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Laurence Berland wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 486 I've got lying around to > use as a NATing firewall for my home network, but I've only got a 200 > Meg HD around. I'm gonna go get another HD later, but right now I'd > like to get running with just that. So far I've been trying with 16 to > swap and various other combinations, but it always seems to run out of > /usr space. I figure / should be at least 32MB, and the rest (~152MB) > goes to /usr. I'm trying to install the binaries, the docs, and the > kernel source (but not the rest of the source). Any idea if it's even > possible? Should I shrink down the root partition more? I've done > loads of installs at this point, but all on HDs with at least a gig for > FreeBSD. Any ideas where I can get a bigger HD that's still under the > limit for old BIOSen? Thanks in advance for any help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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