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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Partition Date: 22 Jul 1996 22:42:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4t1056$7bn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31f1fee5.1142230@news.infolink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E fade@infolink.net (Benjamin Lim) wrote: > This e-mail was originally sent to "Jordan K. Hubbard" > <jkh@time.cdrom.com>. I have not recieve a reply yet so maybe you guys > can help me out: Would you expect to get a timely response by say bothering Bill Gates with installation trouble reports for Windows 95? Sorry, please do _only_ contact the developers directly if you know that the one in question is the responsible developer, *and* you are sure that it's certainly nothing where other people might be of any help for you (since you've already debugged a dozen core dumps etc., and now want to request some information on the foo->bar->info[] assignment in line 329 of foobar.c). It's a great service to be able to contact system developers directly, something i always wished to have for commercial systems i've been working with (since i _have_ gone the route through analyzing core dumps first, and was sure that only somebody with deep insight might be of help). But: don't abuse it. General questions about installation etc. should always be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org first. Remember, there are most likely a lot of people around who've just been installing their systems and who now remember the one or the other detail. > I don't know if it was you or another person at freebsd.org, but that > person told me that since I get a Write Error -1 , in order to install > freebsd, I should make my freebsd partition bigger then my dos/win95 > partition. Sheesh. You must have gotten something wrong. Of course, you need to make your FreeBSD slice (that's what we call partitions, since we've got yet another [traditional] partitioning scheme inside them) big enough to hold your desired distributions. Sysinstall should give you a rough estimation about the space requirements for the various subsystems. Don't forget to add a fair amount of swap space in your calculation. The rule of thumb (which may vary significantly, depending on the usage profile) is to make swap twice the RAM size. Anyway, ``write error -1'' is also what happens if some other problems arise, so you need to quote the preceding error messages from the debug screen as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)