Partition sizes for small harddisk

[Remko Lodder]

Hi Mark,

> 
>>	852 MB should be enough.  Go with a "Custom" installation, and
>>you'll need to be utterly ruthless about not installing unneeded
>>distribution sets.
> 
> 
> "Custom" installation scares me a little, as I don't really know what I'm doing yet.
> I will try and read docs and probably start over lots of times (which is fine with me).
> When I really get stuck can always ask again :-)
> 
> regards
> Mark

I installed a custom NetBSD version on a 420megabyte harddisk, and 
installed numberous FreeBSD installations (from 4.3 if i recall 
correctly) on a 1.2gb harddisk. With those two numbers i can figure you 
can install a minimum install of FreeBSD on your disk, and add some nice 
little features (the 420mb disk was running a firewall,dnsserver and a 
passthrough mailserver (With some low end checks that i didn't want to 
have on the actual mailserver  behind it). This box also was a Sniffer 
in my network for extented period of time, logging everything to a SQL 
box behind it (on the management network ofcourse) , it had a lot of 
traffic passing through but it managed to work.

So, the install size will be ok i think, your only issue might indeed be 
running into steps that might confuse you, reading the docs and asking 
us are good options.

Goodluck :)


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