The test box is a P-II-233, 64 MB ram. It has two drives. The master on the first IDE controller is 1624 MB (the only one the machine will boot for some reason), the slave IDE drive is 8455 MB (bios doesn't see any drives if this is in the first IDE position). There's a DVD burner as master on the second IDE controller. I would just install to the first drive and then make a single large filesystem on the second drive after you are up. I'm a fan of separate / swap /var /usr. You really don't need much for root. With 64M ram you may need some swap. /var does not need to be too big except for logs. So I'd go / 128M /var 128M /usr rest of wd0 (make a /usr/home inside /usr, or put it in /u0/home - not sure why you don't want homedirs on the big disk)) swap 512M on wd1 /u0 rest of wd1 You can then symlink /usr/pkg to /u0/pkg before you install packages. You can also move and symlink /var/db/pkg which on my desktop is 174M, but on a server without gnome etc. won't be so big. On an apache/svn/trac/pgsql/etc. server it's only 6.4M. You can put /usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc on /u0 with no problems. Building the entire OS (netbsd-5 for i386) takes up space (all in KB): 1073768 src 754256 xsrc 499608 destdir/i386 2420102 i386 230986 releasedir/i386 118248 tools I may have old stuff in my objdir so this may not be quite as bad. Just building the cross tools and then rebuilding and installing a few programs is not nearly as bad - the above is the full build that gets an iso image you can install from. Or you can make the first disk all /, which some people like. I don't like / to run out of space when /var or /usr fills up, and I'm traditional - Sixth Edition practice was to have separate filesystems and I've stuck with it.
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