Hi,

At 11:42 PM +0000 04.2.17, Mark Benson wrote:
>OK, following  Kazuyuki Inanaga's advice I have re-installed thusly:
>
>/ - 150MB
><swap> - 136MB (2 x 68MB - the old UNIX swap calculation)
>/usr - 2945MB
>/var - 200MB
>/tmp - 150MB
>/home - 250MB
>Mac OS 8.1 - 500MB

I think you made a nice partition map.
><swap> - 136MB (2 x 68MB - the *old* UNIX swap calculation)
Yes, it may be a *old* idea :)
I'm not sure how to make the best size for swap, I think 136MB is good
because your HDD has large capacity and you don't need to save small.

When making a partition map, I always say to myself;
1. Don't think to make the perfect partition map. There is no 'perfect'
    because it depends on the idea for what I use NetBSD, and the idea is
    changing sometimes.

2. I *am* slow, so make a system faster.
    (As you know, 'outer blocks of the disk' is faster than inner.)
    Use outer blocks of the disks for the important directories.

    For example (I speak under correction), following is my quadra 700's
    partition map. IBM DORS-32160 is installed, and it has 3 disks 5 heads.
    http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/dors/dorstek.htm
    So, I can use 5 of the outer blocks.

    c:   4226725              0     unused     (Cyl.    0 - 6709*)

    4226725(total blocks) / 5 = 845345
    5 of the outer blocks bigin at every 845345 blocks.

              size         offset      fstype
mounted on
1. a:    845249             96   4.2BSD   (Cyl.    0*- 1341*)       /

2. b:    280000     845345      swap   (Cyl. 1341*- 1786*)    swap
    g:    565345   1125345   4.2BSD   (Cyl. 1786*- 2683*)   /home

3. d:    845345   1690690   4.2BSD   (Cyl. 2683*- 4025*)    /usr
4. e:    845345   2536035   4.2BSD   (Cyl. 4025*- 5367*)    /usr/pkgsrc

5. f:    565345   3381380   4.2BSD   (Cyl. 5367*- 6264*)    /var
   h:    280000   3946725         HFS   (Cyl. 6264*- 6709*)   (MacOS)

What is your HDD "4GB Seagate Medalist 7200rpm" Model Number ?
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/install.html
Maybe you don't care such small things anyway, do you ? :)

>Mac OS 8.1 - 500MB
I didn't know the booter runs on Mac OS 8.1. Thanks !

"BooterManual.stxt/Hardware Prerequisites"
>
>The Booter has been tested recently under System 7.1 and 7.5 (both
>minimal and full installs), but it should work under any System 7 setup.
>System 6.0.x is not supported because the Booter requires the machine
>to be booted in 32-Bit Addressing mode.


At 11:42 PM +0000 04.2.17, Mark Benson wrote:
>I would like to get running, in order of preference, the following:
>
>A good Shell (probably BASH)
>AppleTalk sharing <netatalk> (done this in Linux using binaries)
>Localtalk to Ethernet Bridge?  Is this possible?
>Samba sharing (also been done many times, but with binaries)
>NFS sharing (I'm dying to see if I can ever get this to mount in OS X)
>Apache
>X-Windows
>Some sort of GUI with a windowed filer
>Other X-apps - not bothered how slow they are.

That's great !  I'd like to follow some of your steps.
Is your Mystic going to be a NFS server and Web server?
If it was my case, I split 2945MB into some partitions with ccd(4)
for avoiding the fragmentation.
Do you (all) think is it a good idea to make some specific partitions
for those servers?

At 8:36 PM -0500 04.2.18, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>IMHO, unnecessarily complex partitioning with today's filesystems.
>The root partition is traditionally kept separate in order to stop it
>from filling up, but other than that it's not necessary to partition
>that way (drives used to be small so those separate "partitions" used
>to be entire separate drives).

Yes, I agree with this basically. Thanks. I don't make many partitions
on a small capacity HDD. I'm not sure about the fragmentation and
the performance.

Cheers,
Kazu Inanaga