On 4/25/03, Gunnar Flygt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD. > > What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE > or later? > > Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I > bother splitting the partition with / /usr and /var and swap? >
Your FreeBSD Disk Layout: ad0s1a 452MB / ad0s1b 48MB swap splitting it up with /tmp, /var, and /usr will create lot's of wasted space. With FreeBSD 6 452MB will get you: Minimal: 183MB to install, 156MB real disk space useage after install) Minimal with default X.org: (347MB to install, 299MB real) User: (393MB to install, 319MB real) All other distribution sets are too large: Developer 918 741 X-Developer 1080 882 Kern-Developer 526 427 X-Kern-Developer 690 568 X-User 560 461 As for 4.7-RELEASE, don't do it. If you want to use the 4.x branch then use 4.11-RELEASE. This is your best bet: I have an old Toshiba 200CDS (about the same specs as yours) and I know for a fact that it will support a 40GB replacement drive, because I've done it. if I where you I'd look on eBay for a used 5 - 10GB hard drive, this will give you so much more flexibility! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
