From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 14:31:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F9E3C3 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm23-vm5.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm23-vm5.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [212.82.109.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C348FC13 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.234] by nm23.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Nov 2012 14:31:36 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.108] by tm15.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Nov 2012 14:31:36 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp124.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Nov 2012 14:31:36 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353681096; bh=Os3F6scl5atyNrZSAghRP8PnD8d7AjjF5Yap3DUpb+0=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GJPaN6BuNHDgiFwB7fzuEQOxeoVnBxo3O/c2Bj7ixkkKYZ1LyT3d6l8ZMXjSYs0YIzZQZc1gK3p2p1ZGYW39XaMyTyGqPbQP3sxFCWnS8pbDY2IWuOKqFCt6j51nvylETBPAA1mZvlZJEcOzT6RVWiZ/a32PjFOHSywH/o5zf+s= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 701904.9645.bm@smtp124.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: _EZlEQ8VM1lgWVd2.CcRjO54jWBmbYW.mqzgXZGAquwh6Jm L5GBm4_gr_ePNx0AICOQjuP8t7h8XiaAWqnjfaLWKTMo8L3sL2yH3KA61C59 eotk6THHEQwZXfqAbugq5GbOX.YFqTSjD0QwB79YZ7drQn9xYg8WAF8T27n6 3GWrNiYRwPPOkRvBCFduv0OpcM7PJRD_8VkJn41WcO.FCEQIoq.sWEiEnAtV sOOuMEP47uSLdGmgrAtwVIAxRaaFNGKKKaQnw80KmzQaRvzdNlgkRJVrHHeS 8dkuvnEod20O7XEm2eq0K4yoaJXAcxqCRPO7VlsqeNpRCLtK1q5SI6B7KxHi YCKETRGAjjxr5p_EkdlPvQErOg53jhP52DWPH5x7BrdnGbZlvH91sn.wsFjz LlJLlXAVI_4e2zh4jEVFJJTO6M4s1OMUlCztPIPud X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [92.224.208.134] (ralf.mardorf@92.224.208.134 with login) by smtp124.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Nov 2012 06:31:36 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1353681095.6366.14.camel@q> Subject: Re: RME audio card user new to FreeBSD From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:31:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1353623365.2366.8.camel@q> <1353630347.3212.5.camel@q> <201211230825.56455.hselasky@c2i.net> <1353675042.4081.14.camel@q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:31:38 -0000 On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:16 +0000, Chris Rees wrote: > Well, you can't just install onto a Linux partition, is that what you > mean? Hi Chris :) my machine is a Linux only multi-boot PC, among others I've got Arch Linux and Ubuntu installed. There are several free logical partitions on my 2 HDDs (no RAID, no LVM), but only one primary partition on each drive. Both primary partitions aren't empty. The primary partition of the first drive contains backups only, unfortunately non of the free logical drives is large enough to move the data. If needed I'll shrink one logical and increase another logical partition and than move the data from the primary partition to this logical one. This will result in /dev/sda1 (as Linux does call it) free for FreeBSD, but dose cause a lot of work. I wonder what bootloader to use to boot into FreeBSD and the different Linux kernels and what file system to use for this partition. Regards, Ralf