I put 134 Mb for the swap, and the rest for the /. I just look at what is left over, and put it all in the /. Should I put less then what it shows? How much less?
--- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I tried to put everything exept for the swap. > Under > > the root partition, but the system said "unable to > > create partition. Too big?" I am using FreeBSD > 5.3. Do > > I need to use FreeBSD 4.11 or older? > > No. You calculated the sizes wrong, probably. Your > root plus > swap added up to more disk than was available in the > slice you > were creating them. > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > --- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone could help me > allocating > > > a > > > > 1.5 gig hard drive. I worked on it a little > bite, > > > and > > > > came up with 150MB for /, 134MB for swap, > 150MB > > > for > > > > /var, 175MB for /tmp, and the rest goes to > /usr. > > > > > > Well, if it works it is good. > > > Nowdays, 1.5 GB is pretty tight for anything but > a > > > slimmed down system. > > > > > > > I > > > > would like to optamize this a little more. I > want > > > to > > > > run KDE on the hard drive. Any help with this > > > would > > > > greatly be appreceated, because I am > installing it > > > on > > > > an old Thinkpad (380D (( PI 175 Mghz)). > > > > > > This might be a situation where putting > everything > > > but swap in > > > the root partition would be a reasonable idea. > It > > > would be > > > difficult to know in advance where stuff will > fit. > > > KDE is kind > > > of big and you will need X for it too. > > > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > > http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439 > > > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439 > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced > search. Learn more. > > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > > ===== http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
