Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:13:10 -0700 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Rodrigo Costa <bacacosta@yahoo.com.br>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions types supported Message-ID: <200206171713.11645.djohnson@acuson.com> In-Reply-To: <20020617233033.98137.qmail@web14006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020617233033.98137.qmail@web14006.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Monday 17 June 2002 04:30 pm, Rodrigo Costa wrote: > Hi. Iīm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 at my system, > but I have a doubt about partitions creation. I have > to create one partition for Windows (primary), one for > Linux Swap (also primary), one for my files (FAT32, > can be extended) and one for linux (ext2, can be > extended too). What is FreeBSDīs native partition > type? Can I install it in an FAT or ext2 partition? > Could you help me to solve this problem? Which > partitions you advise me to create? One harddrive or two? I definitely recommend two. Here is my setup at home: (all are primary partitions) ad0s1 - Windows C: ad0s2 - FreeBSD swap ad0s3 - Linux ext2 ad0s4 - Windows D: (shared data for all OSes (Windows hates multiple primary partitions, you have to create this under Linux or FreeBSD)) ad1s1 - FreeBSD / ad1s2 - Linux swap ad1s3 - FreeBSD /usr ad1s4 - FreeBSD (for backups, mp3s, wallpapers, burning ISOs, etc) For your FreeBSD partitions, just create FAT partitions as placeholders, then you can delete and recreate them in the FreeBSD installer. NOTE: FreeBSD cannot be installed in an extended partition. Save your extended partitions for less discriminating systems like Windows and Linux. READ THE HANDBOOK FIRST! It has a nice section on partitioning the harddrive with examples. David p.s. Notice how I have the the OS and swap partitions on separate drives. This improves your performance if you have to hit swap. p.p.s. FreeBSD-4.6 was released yesterday. You're three releases behind :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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