Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:07:43 -0400 (EDT) From: alan17@his.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990609230743.714.qmail@alan17.his.com>
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Greetings! The Web site implied that I can post to this E-list without joining it; I hope this is the case. I have recently bought and installed a 6.3 Seagate, and have reserved the first half of it for a planned installation of FreeBSD. I made a gig partition for the system(BSDI fs), 75 meg for swap(BSDI swap), and a third 1.3 gig partition(BSDI fs) for home directories. Questions: Is the above correct, and adequate? Will I be able to install FreeBSD there without messing up the rest of the disk?(this is important, the rest of the disk is filling up with Linux stuff)? Finally, will I be able to hand-edit my Linux /etc/lilo.conf so as to be able to boot Free BSD at boot time? Is there any reason why I shouldn't simply order a CD with the 3.2 release on it and -- using the info that you will hopefully provide<g> -- proceed with installation? I have already downloaded the Handbook. TIA, and best wishes, Alan McConnell -- Alan McConnell I claim not to have controlled events, but confess Pixel Analysis plainly that events have controlled me. (A. Lincoln) alan17@his.com Hold the fort! I am coming! (W.T. Sherman) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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