Date: 17 Apr 1996 23:56:36 -0400 From: robert@elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partioning.... Message-ID: <en34akwwb.fsf@justine.elastica.com> In-Reply-To: Michael Smith's message of Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:40:25 %2B0930 (CST) References: <199604180110.KAA11850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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<msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> writes:
Oops you're right... it's been a while since I've touched FreeBSD's
terminology. So my only concern then is whether the root partition in
the FreeBSD slice is wholely under <1024 cylinders then. That's
reasonable as long as other partitions are allowed to be above. Since
I'm not, unfortunately using extended translation.
>Robert Nicholson stands accused of saying:
>>
>>FreeBSD 2.1 requires a boot partition to be a primary right?
>>
>>What's an acceptable boot partition size ... 10 MB for recompiling the
>>kernel?
>Er. You don't understand 8) FreeBSD lives inside a single 'primary'
>partition, which is known as a 'slice'. This slice is then divided into
>'partitions'.
>You will want at least a 100M slice to install FreeBSD.
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