Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:43:19 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: How big a HD? (automatic settings) Message-ID: <20021113004319.86099.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi guys,
Sorry if this is not exactly -hackers material, but I
suspect some committer actually caused havoc for newbies. I
recall someone changed the auto-settings to accomodate for
the bigger disk and memory sizes available nowadays, but
newbies (precisely the people that tend to use the
automatic settings by default) usually start by dedicating
only a small part of the disk for FreeBSD.
After some advocacy effort, I convinced a friend to try
FreeBSD and I handed him some old 3.4 CDs I had. He
attempted to install it on a 600M HD with the surprise that
the auto settings in sysinstall didn't leave him sufficient
space on the /usr partition. He was somewhat surprised as
the CD box actually suggested that much less space was
required. He downloaded a 5.0 ISO and found the same
problem.
My question is; how much disk space is required to install
FreeBSD nowadays??
cheers,
Pedro.
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Pedro F. Giffuni
M.SC. Industrial Eng. University of Pittsburgh
Mech. Eng. Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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