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 / /us
--On Friday, February 03, 2006 09:07:33 -0600 "Stephen D. Spencer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with the first reply that you should check out 6.0-R; however,
with a 500M drive, I would go with your initial instincts to cut off a
piece for swap and use the rest for a single filesystem. U
I agree with the first reply that you should check out 6.0-R; however, with
a 500M drive, I would go with your initial instincts to cut off a piece for
swap and use the rest for a single filesystem. Unless you know the precise
list of ports, where they go and how much space they take up, slicing u
FreeBSD 4.7 is no longer a supported release.
You really should be looking at doing a fresh
install of 6.0 from scratch so you can take
advantage of the new file system which came out in 5.0.
When it comes to FreeBSD slices on the hard drive, the
sizes created by the auto selection during sysinstal
