From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 13:15:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E109537B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D3F43ECD for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b106.otenet.gr [195.167.121.234]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAOLEaYh000559; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:14:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAOLDqLT002421; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:14:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAOKFngc000772; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:15:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:15:49 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: Michael Sharp , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd slice - 2 hdd's Message-ID: <20021124201549.GA737@gothmog.gr> References: <1417.192.168.1.4.1038137355.squirrel@webmail.probsd.org> <20021124132011.GG77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021124132011.GG77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-11-24 14:20, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # ms@probsd.org / 2002-11-24 06:29:15 -0500: > > I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting the / , /var, > > /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr slice on ad1 > > and installing the freebsd boot manager to ad0? > > I do: you don't need to install a boot manager just because you have > the system spread over more than one disk. :) > > Seriously: no problem, but the boot manager prompt (and delay) is > going to turn into a nuisance. Install the "standard mbr" (unless, > of course, you want to boot more than one system on the box). Right. As long as the standard MBR can locate and boot the slice that contains your root fs, you don't need to worry about putting /var, /usr or /home or any other partition on a second disk. Just edit your /etc/fstab with the right entries and you'll be set to go (sysinstall should do that for you, if this is a new installation). - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message