Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:50:12 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Computer System Message-ID: <d7195cff0602232050y4d5828cldb0fdb370f6cc842@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060222.164330.8420.330983@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060222.164330.8420.330983@webmail39.nyc.untd.com>
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On 2/22/06, gs_stoller@juno.com <gs_stoller@juno.com> wrote: > I bought a new system (it was on sale), it has 180 Gigabytes > of hard drive. Naturally I want to slice it up, so where can I find > the documentation on the slice/partition process and table. As I > recall, I can make 4 hard slices/partitions and then I can further > break-down 1 (or more of them) to have logical slices/partitions. > Where can I find documentation on the logical slices/partitions and > how to use them? Can I boot into a ( FreeBSD ) logical slice, and > if so, how do I do it? (For the 4 hard slices, one uses function > keys F1 thru F4 .) Has someone already setup the capability of > booting into logical slices, and if so, where can I get it and its > documentation? >From a 40-50 minute excursion into qemu, FreeBSD does not enjoy linux logical partitions (slices), and I could not get it to install into one. Jerry McAllister's advice remains sound. -- --
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