Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:31:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: jbernt@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990730132312.20420O-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990730052151.16283.rocketmail@web135.yahoomail.com>
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jeffrey Bernt wrote:
> Help! I have an 8.4 gig hard drive with the first 4
> gig filled with win98. (first mistake,haha)
> I can put freebsd in a 2 gig partition, but redhat
> won't install onto the rest of the drive after I do
> this. Thinking that freebsd could handle anything, I
> try putting redhat into the 2 gig after the 98
> partition, and try putting freebsd into the remaining
> 2 gig. In fdisk, it shows an X in place of the
> partition name. Can anyone help? Would forgetting
> about redhat and just put freebsd into the remaining 4
> gig after win98 be plausible? Would it work?!?
> Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts.
Here's my suggestion:
hard drive
|---------------------|
| |
| FreeBSD | Wastebasket
| |
| | \ Windows /
| | \ Redhat /
|---------------------| \_______/
Just kidding... :)
Seriously your best bet is this kind of setup:
hard drive
|---------------------|
| FreeBSD root partition <- small like 60-80megs
|---------------------|
| Windows | <- 4 gigs
| |
| |
|---------------------|
| FreeBSD other partitions <- rest of space
| /var, /usr and |
| swap |
|---------------------|
each box is a primary partition, FreeBSD won't go in an extended one.
you may be able to do the same thing with Redhat, ie, a small root partition
and the rest of the system installed at the end of the disk and actually
install all 3 OS's.
As far as I know Linux can exist in an "extended partition" you may
have luck installing it there.
good luck,
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net]
systems administrator and programmer
Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/
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