Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:51:07 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Stephen Hansen <stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preparing for a Good Setup -- hdd partitioning Message-ID: <3975098B.E8525B62@acuson.com> References: <01f701bff120$508368a0$0200a8c0@Ryan>
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Stephen Hansen wrote: > I will be duel-booting between Win98 and the FreeBSD; I intend on > splitting my 10gig > hdd evenly between the two, I suspose. I am a firm believer of separate harddrives for each OS. But I can understand the dissenters... The problem you're going to encounter is that Win98 needs to boot from the first partition and FreeBSD needs to boot from below the 1024th cylinder (is this still true?). There are many ways around these limitations, some of which can be found in the multi-os document at www.freebsd.org. But if your situation is typical, I would get Partition Magic or another similar program, re-arrange your drive to have two small partitions and two large ones. The small ones will be boot partitions for Windows and FreeBSD, and should be both below the 1024th cylinder, and the large ones will hold everything else. > > I am on a p2-400mhz w/ 128megs of ram -- how large should my swap > partition be? For your first install (you will have others, har, har, har), just use the defaults for everything. Oh, and back up everything first... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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