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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!IntGame!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on / partition? Date: 4 Nov 1995 02:09:44 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 14 Message-ID: <47ei18$45b@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <47dghl$o2k@swen.emba.uvm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Todd Huss (huss@emba-news.uvm.edu) wrote: : I have a laptop and am very low on space, so I'd like to install the : entire system on a single / partition. When I tried to do this with the : 100595 SNAP it gave me the warning about not having a /usr partition and : then when I tried to commit it gave me a bunch of errors. If I include a I would try the latest SNAP. 100595 is one of the few SNAPs I haven't installed. From 2.0, 2.0.5-SNAPs, 2.0.5, 2.1-SNAPs, this is how I have always installed FreeBSD, a single root partition. You might want to check the size of your / parition. Are you sure you are allocating all but the swap space you want from your FreeBSD slice to / ? -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)