From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 30 10:32: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6169814F63 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA12204; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:31:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: jbernt@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive... In-Reply-To: <19990730052151.16283.rocketmail@web135.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message