Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:24:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> To: Scott Chappa <schappa@cryogen.com> Cc: FREEBSD-NEWBIES@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation with System Commander 3.03 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980913204357.14568B-100000@crl.crl.com> In-Reply-To: <Version.32.19980913175727.00f7ebe0@mail.gci-net.com>
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> Hopefully this is the correct forum to ask this question. I currently have > System Commander installed with Win95-SR1. My HDD storage setup is the > following (on the same chain): > > C: 341 MB > > 6.2 GB (into the following partitions) > D: 1.6 Gb > E: 1.6 Gb > F: 1.6 Gb > G: 1.6 Gb > > My desired scheme is to make the G partition completely BSD and install the > OS there. First of all, is this possible? Also when I make the BSD boot > disk and rebooted, I came to an menu that talked about disk slices. I > assume slices=partitions? Thanks for any help. hmm, well, I'll tell you what I've done, and that might help. I had to dump freebsd though, because my cds became coasters, so trying to learn from linux until that fateful day in october when Freebsd 3.0 comes out. What I was forced to do was get rid of system commander (v3 and v4), because they just didn't work right for me, and even though lilo is a little inconvenient, its not bad. Mostly, it makes it harder to get into dos (nice dos prompt command for win98, and of course, quicker then going through the menu for old dos). I don't use it much, so its not important. My setup... 8.7gb SCSI (ID 0) - PCDOS, Win98, Linux 2.1gb SCSI (ID 1) - NT4, Linux Swap What I did was first change the boot drive from the 8.7gb drive to the 2.1gb. I installed NT, and keep in mind there were no partitions before, so it made that partition active, and put its boot drivers there. I then returned to the other order (simple boot ID command in bios), installed dos, and then win98 (95 in your case). Actually, I might have installed Linux before, but it doesn't matter. I put lilo on the boot sector, and so now I have three options. Main: Dos (dos/win), Linux, NT. The beauty is that that dumb NT-loader, which can't load any OS other then dos/win/os2, isn't popping up when I try to get at win95.. the only problem is that I have to edit the boot.ini by hand if I ever wanted too.. because NT's graphical way expects it on C:... So, I'm not quite sure what OSes you want, but out of the three, I'm all set and its nice. I don't use dos much, and only v4 has that handy win98 dos-prompt. I could even install another OS if I'd like, and just point lilo to it for boot.. they just need to have mbr's pointing to them, which they always do.. Here below is my oartitioning scheme (or slices) 8.7gb C: - dos, 700mb (fat) d: - win98, 4gb (fat32) e: - backup, 2gb (fat) * - Linux, 2gb (ext2) 2.1gb D: - NT4, 1.450gb (NTFS) * - SWAP, 100mb f: - temp, 550b (fat) I hope this helps.. it all can be done.. You can use System Comander, or whatever you'd like. What I don't understand is why you have a 300mb drive there, especially as boot. Its slower then hte 6.2gb, and will degrade performance. Personally, I'd make it second, and put it there for swaps and temp files (internet, program, self). It may be slow, like 15ms compared to the 6gb 9ms (or whatever), but slight better because while the swap is slower to access, it gets down the burden your putting on the 6gb, which is worse.. think about raid.. and try to emulate as best you can w/o it.. again.. hope this helped.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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