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To: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck)
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:36:50 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> provided for Release 2.1.7 and I a little confused about the notation
> used for "slicing" a hard disk. Basically I have 2 IDE drives and one
> SCSI. I've got 500meg free on the SCSI. I could find about 50meg free
> on the first IDE. If I were installing Linux I'd put / on the 50meg
> of the first IDE and the rest of the system on the 500meg of the SCSI.
> Is is possible to split FreeBSD like this? As I said, the notation used

Yes, absolutely.  Just create a partition on that IDE drive and on the
SCSI drive, then go to the label editor (or simply procede if you're
running the Novice install) and assign filesystems to them.  Unlike
Linux, you can have multiple filesystems inside of a single partition
if you like - you don't have to assign a physical partition to swap,
another to root, another to /usr and so on.

> thing up. Can anyone point me to some documentation which explains 
> FreeBSD partitioning, where the kernel is located, schemes for laying
> out the filesystem, etc. It should be fairly basic information.

Actually, if you just hit F1 in the Partition and Label editors,
it will explain all this at that point. :)

					Jordan