From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 13:29:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8C837B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 714FC43E6A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 12975 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2002 20:32:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2002 20:32:53 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.1.18) with SMTP id M2002100213325301005 ; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:32:53 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g92KTDnr019479; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:29:13 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g92KTDWZ006977; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200210022029.g92KTDWZ006977@axp.csl.sri.com> To: Matthew Donadio Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8.4Gb IDE Drive Limit In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 16:13:13 EDT." <3D9B5359.C2C9E179@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:29:13 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I split the drive in two with the intentions of installing FreeBSD on > one slice, and Linux on the other (I haven't tried Linux yet). Are you > suggesting that I should try putting / on a small slice by itself, and > see if that boots? It's worth a shot. I would suggest that you make a 256Mb partition with a single 256Mb FreeBSD slice as the first partition on the disk, then divide the remaining space as you see fit. (Redhat*) Linux will also want a /boot partition (64 - 128Mb will do, should be below cylinder 1024). - Mike * I don't have experience with the other Linux distributions, so the others may have different requirements. P.S. I would not spend the effort installing Linux if it was my machine. FreeBSD is far superior in many ways. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message