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( [59.94.142.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f60sm1855523pyh.2007.01.19.02.53.55; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:54:03 -0800 (PST) From: Anuj Singh To: Norberto Meijome In-Reply-To: <20070119112324.626a5943@localhost> References: <1169158942.4706.19.camel@fedora.linux> <20070119112324.626a5943@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-NfPbpQdLVcjG9XA9YEVk" Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:18:03 +0530 Message-Id: <1169203683.4775.25.camel@fedora.linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Multi Boot Installtion FreeBSd+Fedora+Debian X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:54:04 -0000 --=-NfPbpQdLVcjG9XA9YEVk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I am sorry, actually it was working but taking too much time, and at that time I was unable to go to any tty, to avoid mishap I used knoppix qtparted and formated that partition (incomplete installation of BSD) back to fat32 file system. Now started my beastie installation , in fdisk utility I used "T" option giving it 165 and partitioned, I have one confusion according to=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.htm= l says Table 2-2. Partition Layout for First Disk Partition Filesystem Size Description a / 100 MB This is the root filesystem. Every other filesystem will be mounted somewhere under this one. 100 MB is a reasonable size for this filesystem. You will not be storing too much data on it, as a regular FreeBSD install will put about 40 MB of data here. The remaining space is for temporary data, and also leaves expansion space if future versions of FreeBSD need more space in /. b N/A 2-3 x RAM The system's swap space is kept on this partition. Choosing the right amount of swap space can be a bit of an art. A good rule of thumb is that your swap space should be two or three times as much as the available physical memory (RAM). You should also have at least 64 MB of swap, so if you have less than 32 MB of RAM in your computer then set the swap amount to 64 MB. If you have more than one disk then you can put swap space on each disk. FreeBSD will then use each disk for swap, which effectively speeds up the act of swapping. In this case, calculate the total amount of swap you need (e.g., 128 MB), and then divide this by the number of disks you have (e.g., two disks) to give the amount of swap you should put on each disk, in this example, 64 MB of swap per disk. e /var 50 MB The /var directory contains files that are constantly varying; log files, and other administrative files. Many of these files are read-from or written-to extensively during FreeBSD's day-to-day running. Putting these files on another filesystem allows FreeBSD to optimize the access of these files without affecting other files in other directories that do not have the same access pattern. f /usr Rest of disk All your other files will typically be stored in /usr and its subdirectories. when I followed 100 MB for my root "/" it said 118MB is minimum requirement.=20 So I gave=20 120MB for / 1024MB 2x Physical Ram 300MB /var 200MB /tmp and rest is for /usr. ^target is to use X over Freebsd. Problem I facing now is: 1:My debian is showing error dropping me to fsck,=20 running e2fsck on hdc gives can not read superblock, ^I did some mistake with partitions. Fedora is working fine, At the boot manager time I installed Freebsd boot manager I had only 1 option to boot (I will read manual if it recognizes Linux installation same as grub do). again reinstalled grub with fedora core4 (rescue mode) #chroot /mnt/sysimage #grub-install /dev/hdc added following lines in /etc/grub.conf title FreeBSD 6.1 rootnoverify (hd0,a) chainloader +1 I can boot into FreeBSD with this entry.=20 Problem 1:it is taking some extra time same as it was taking at the installation period. (most probably due to many partitions). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D New fdisk -l shows Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77622 cylinders Units =3D cylinders of 1008 * 512 =3D 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 6089 77600 36041827+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdc3 * 29 5436 2725632 a5 FreeBSD Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdc5 * 6089 6296 104359+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc6 6296 12384 3068383+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc7 12384 22536 5116671 83 Linux /dev/hdc8 22536 24560 1020096 83 Linux /dev/hdc9 24560 25580 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc10 25580 31668 3068383+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc11 31668 33724 1036161 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdc12 33724 33931 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdc13 33932 36975 1534176 83 Linux /dev/hdc14 36976 37995 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc15 37996 52212 7164958+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order and grub shell output is: GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.] grub> root (hd0, Possible partitions are: Partition num: 2, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 7, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 8, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 9, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 10, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 11, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 12, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 13, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 14, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Thanks and regards anugunj "anuj" On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 11:23 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:52:22 +0530 > Anuj Singh wrote: >=20 > > Now with the FreeBSD 6.1 installation cd , Installations stops after > > detecting my hard disk. I unplugged my 2nd IDE (with data) as it > > sometimes it shows me data read error thinking it may causing problem. > > Still the problem is same, i can not proceed beyond the detection of my > > first IDE detection. >=20 > Hi Anuj, > what does exactly happen? what part of the installation process ? If you= are > already in the ncurses interface, you can switch to another VT (Alt-F2 th= rought > to F4 at least should work ), where far more detailed information about t= he > installation process is shown. I think Alt-F2 should give you a console w= here > you can issue some commands to see what's going on. >=20 > Best, > _________________________ > {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome >=20 > "I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is= , for > the sake of a useful cause." Dostoevsky >=20 > I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when w= et. > Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. 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