Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:35:29 +0100 From: "baldyeti" <e_fax_t@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: install & partitioning advice needed Message-ID: <BAY17-DAV1587BD66C614A8E5F94C6DA1BB0@phx.gbl>
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Hello, Using a FreeBSD 4.6 CD I have, I'd like to install on an older system (P200). The machine has a 4 GB IDE drive and another 4 Gb attached via SCSI. These seem to be recognised as da0 and ad0. The SCSI adapter has no ROM, and is not directly bootable. I thus suppose FreeBSD - and any OS under the circumstances - needs at least one little boot slice on the 1st (IDE) drive. I could free about 400 Mb on that drive, in an extended partition. Can FreeBSD be started from an extended partition, or will it need a primary one, and which filesystem(s) needs reside on the startup disk, with which recommended minimum size? TIA, --bald
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