At 7:02 PM +0000 12/17/01, Mark Benson wrote:
>I am trying to install BSD on my LCIII. I want to put the / (root) 
>folder on the internal drive, which has 358MB free after Mac OS and 
>a 64MB Swap (I have 32MB or RAM so figure it needed to be a decent 
>size). I then want to put the /usr stuff on the external drive 
>(~270MB in size) to space it all out a bit asI fear my internal disk 
>will fill up too fast otherwise. Can it be done using the 
>'Installer' application?

Yup...there's just an extra step.

>I tried creating a root slice on the internal and a usr slice on the 
>external and formatting them as NetBSD root and NetBSD usr 
>respectively but the installer just copied all the /usr stuff to the 
>root partition (I could tell as it was copying to the internal 
>drive, not the external). What do I need to do different if I do it 
>again. I'd like to get it right the second time as it takes forever 
>and a week to unpack it all.

OK, when you start up the installer, you need to use the mini-shell 
to mount the external drive on /usr. Then when you exit the 
mini-shell (but not the installer) /usr will still be mounted. But 
anytime you quit & relaunch the installer, you'll need to do that 
again.

>Secondly, which tgz packages are essential and which are not. I 
>don't really intend to do much recompiling but I have a PowerCD SCSI 
>drive and an LC-PDS network card not attached at the moment and 
>wondered what I need to install to reduce the size to a minimum but 
>still be able to add devices later. I'd also like to use it as a DNS 
>and do some C programming on it, although the C isn't a major 
>priority right now.

Absolutely essential are "base", "kern", and "etc". For compiling, 
"comp" is required.

HTH
Mike
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