From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 15:44:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DC416A41B for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:44:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D89913C458 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:44:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0HFgSmf093697; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:42:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m0HFgSca093696; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:42:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:42:28 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Eric LaVoie Message-ID: <20080117154227.GD93480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <160593.63098.qm@web45105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <160593.63098.qm@web45105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: external hard drive for mobile pc 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: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:44:48 -0000 On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 07:55:20PM -0800, Eric LaVoie wrote: > Will FreeBSD work if I install it on an external hard drive, connected to a mobile PC via USB or FireWire, as a partition ( the two partitions being the mobile PC's internal Hardrive and this external hard drive which I am asking about.)? > If the answer is yes: can you provide me with links to some documentation covering how I would create the partition on the external hard drive ( this partition would cover as much of this drive as possible with the internal one being used for Windows Vista.); and how I can burn bootable DVD-RWs from the .iso image files of FreeBSD which I downloaded from your site? > Thank-you for your time, > Eric Well, I have an external USB drive on my deskside machine and I don't see how it should be different for a mobile one, except you might not want to always carry the external drive with you. So, you will want to 'noauto' it in fstab, so it doesn't always try to mount it at boot time. Then you can mount it manually when you need it. You will most likely have to have it plugged in at boot time if you want to use it so the system knows to make a device for it. The process of creating slices and partitions/filesystems on an external drive are exactly the same as doing it on an internal drive. You should be able to use either fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs or have sysinstall do it for you. I had some trouble because the drive I had was larger than the slice size limit those things would handle on V 6.1 which I was using on that machine then. So, I had to use gparted to create 3 slices. Then I was able to do it in a standard manner - just as described in the handbook for adding drives and in numerous posts to the list - I have made several - and some FAQs in online publications. So, just a little searching for adding a disk will get you what you need. Remember, that in FreeBSD, primary divisions of the disk are called 'slices' and slices can be subdivided in to 'partitions'. Microsloth mangles those so that primary divisions are called primary partitions and subdivisions are called extended partitions but their extended partitions are not compatible with UNIX, although there are UNIX ways of talking to them. ////jerry > __________________________________________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"