From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 23:31:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA14255 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA14249 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00970; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:32:06 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:32:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: paulc@seas.ucla.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddrive partition In-Reply-To: <9607101841.AA12169@lightning.seas.ucla.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jul 1996 paulc@seas.ucla.edu wrote: > I heard from a friend that BSD requires a root partition > which is required to residee in the primary partition. I used > FIPS to split the primary partition (c:\) toaround 50-50. I then > ran the boot.flp and typed -c to configure the hardware settings. The > hardware settings seems to be working fin right now. But when it came > to partitioning the hd, I assumed that it was asking where the root > partition should reside. I hi-lited one of the 50MB and typed q (quit). > And continued following default instructions. Then I came to out of > space message. Try this. I haven't tried this myself so it may not work. First, delete the FreeBSD partitions to start clean. Then in the fdisk editor make two FreeBSD slices: one in the 50mb space you just made, another taking up the remaining 400mb on the disk. In the disklabel editor, put the 'a' partition (/) on the 50mb partition, and /var and /usr and swap on the 400mb. (Hint: watch the device names for which slice to use. wd0s1, wd0s2....the last digit is the slice.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major