Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 02:02:42 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, spider 90 <spider90@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: partitions Message-ID: <38EBD422.26B8E5A5@informatik.uni-halle.de>
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> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:14:24AM +0000, spider 90 wrote:
> > Howdy folks:) Attempting to install freebsd and linux on my
> > 30gig hard drive. I already have windows 98 there and would like to
> > partion 5gigs to freebsd, another to linux, then the rest leave to
> > the already existing windows o/s. What is the best route. I read
> > in complete freebsd that fips doesnt work on some newer microsoft
> > filesystems. Should I use partition magic or is there better program
> > to accomplish this?
>
> If you have the program, then use partition magic, to resize the windows
> partition. First defrag your Windows partition, to make shrinking by
> partition magic easier. Then shrink it to make 10 Gb of space, and if
> possible, move it to the end of the disk's area (this is nice to do
> because I'm not sure if BSD can boot from a partition that's way into
> your disk's area -- like one that starts at 5 Gb).
>
> Right before installing, you should have your disk separated in:
>
> 0 - 10 Gb: free area
> 10 Gb - end: windows C: drive
>
> At the end of installations you should have:
>
> 0 - 5 Gb: freebsd slice
> 5 - 10 Gb: linux primary partition
> 10 Gb: windows C: drive
>
> If you want to use a primary partition for a linux swap partition, you
> can change this to include a small primary partition as linux swap.
I would not be to sure that Win98 can boot from a partition beyond 8GB
limit.
The way I'd prefer were to create tow small boot partions for linux and
FreeBSD
(max 500MB each). Than the windows partition and than the "real" FreeBSD
and
Linux partitions:
0- 500MB Linux /root
500-1000MB FreeBSD partition with slice for /root
1GB-xGB Windows98
xGB-yGB Linux partition (f.e. /usr) (extended part.)
yGB-yGB+128MB Linux swap (extended part.)
yGB+128MB-end FreeBSD partition for other slices (extended part.)
If you plan to install other systems as Windows NT/2000 or OS/2 than a
boot
partition as for the unix clones are there required, too. Here I'm sure.
But I think for more systems you should have really more disks.
Ciao
--
Jens Rehsack --- <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de>
http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/
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