Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:30:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: alan17@his.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906091729140.3005-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990609230743.714.qmail@alan17.his.com>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 alan17@his.com wrote: > Greetings! The Web site implied that I can post to this E-list > without joining it; I hope this is the case. > > I have recently bought and installed a 6.3 Seagate, and have reserved > the first half of it for a planned installation of FreeBSD. I made > a gig partition for the system(BSDI fs), 75 meg for swap(BSDI swap), > and a third 1.3 gig partition(BSDI fs) for home directories. Did you make partitions with Partition Magic or something? FreeBSD's file format isn't strictly like BSDi's. You should use sysinstall. > Questions: Is the above correct, and adequate? Will I be able to > install FreeBSD there without messing up the rest of the disk?(this > is important, the rest of the disk is filling up with Linux stuff)? > Finally, will I be able to hand-edit my Linux /etc/lilo.conf so as > to be able to boot Free BSD at boot time? How much RAM do you have? 75MB of swap isn't that much. Also, you want more space in /usr than in /. > Is there any reason why I shouldn't simply order a CD with the 3.2 > release on it and -- using the info that you will hopefully provide<g> -- > proceed with installation? I have already downloaded the Handbook. It's helpful to have the distfiles and packages for the ports local. Plus, FTP downloads from wcarchive are much slower than a CD. :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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