From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 10:37:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10239 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:37:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.ti.com (dragon.ti.com [192.94.94.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10234 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:37:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from lesol1.dseg.ti.com ([157.170.147.17]) by dragon.ti.com (8.6.13) with ESMTP id MAA14928 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:37:07 -0600 Received: from sc10.dseg.ti.com (sc10.dseg.ti.com [172.25.34.214]) by lesol1.dseg.ti.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA27574 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:37:07 -0600 Received: by sc10.dseg.ti.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15607; Fri, 28 Feb 97 12:39:58 CST Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 12:39:58 CST From: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck) Message-Id: <9702281839.AA15607@sc10.dseg.ti.com> To: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Installing FreeBSD Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, First of all this is my first post to the list. I currently run Linux and am interested in running FreeBSD. I've tried using the boot disk provided for Release 2.1.7 and I a little confused about the notation used for "slicing" a hard disk. Basically I have 2 IDE drives and one SCSI. I've got 500meg free on the SCSI. I could find about 50meg free on the first IDE. If I were installing Linux I'd put / on the 50meg of the first IDE and the rest of the system on the 500meg of the SCSI. Is is possible to split FreeBSD like this? As I said, the notation used for the disk partitioning is new to me and I'm afraid of screwing some- thing up. Can anyone point me to some documentation which explains FreeBSD partitioning, where the kernel is located, schemes for laying out the filesystem, etc. It should be fairly basic information. Thanks for any advice. Terry Eck _____________________________________________________________________________ Terry Eck eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com //// Hukt on Foniks Rilly Wurkt Fer Mee! ////