Hi! > I intend to make my system dual boot Windows and FreeBSD. > I have shrunk the existing partition to around 3GB using Partition Magic and > left just over 1GB for FreeBSD. > > I want to install at least an 'average user' distribution including X > Windows. > > How should the slice be partitioned into file systems and swap space given > that I will be running in single user mode?
1 GB is pretty tight if you want to run X. But it should be possible, given that I recently installed FreeBSD 4.7 + XFree86 4.2.1 + KDE 3.0.5 on a machine with 1.2 + 0.8 GB disks (of which the latter is dedicated to /home). I even rebuilt the world and compiled all the stuff from ports - this took several days on that ole' P166 :-) For that small a disk I'd recommend just creating two partitions - swap (I know everybody blindly tells you to use RAMx2, but in my experience you can get by with a *lot* less) and a / partition. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
