Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:27:41 -0600 From: George Ruch <george.ruch@3lefties.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Three questions... Message-ID: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com>
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I'm working on a 5.4-REL test installation on my main desktop machine.
Hardware specifics:
MSI MS-6378 MB
AMD Athalon 1800 @ 1536
256 MB memory
2 x Maxtor 30 GB drives
Zip 100 ATA
DVD-RW
This will be a learning installation. I have some past experience with
OS/2 Warp 3 and Redhat 5.1 (no, you don't get to guess my age) on much
smaller drives.
Q1: I have two drives, laid out as follows:
Drive 1
/ad0a WinXP, NTFS, 16.06GB, primary
/ad0e data, NTFS, 12.58GB, extended
Drive 2
/ad1a currently empty, 14.36GB, primary
(installation target)
/ad1e /ad0 backup, NTFS, 14.27GB, extended
I'd like to use XP's NTLDR to manage the dual boot process. I've seen
the following trick for Linux ( www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html):
- Boot into Linux, copy the first sector of the boot partition as follows:
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
- Move bootsect.lnx to WinXP root (C:\), and add the following line to
boot.ini:
C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
Does this approach work with FreeBSD? Logic says it should, given the
similarities, but when has logic applied consistently to computers?
Q2: Failing that, does anyone out there have any experience with
PowerQuest's (now Symantec) BootMagic boot manager (p/o Partition Magic
8.0) and FreeBSD? The documentation indicated that it will recognize
Linux partitions, but says nothing about FreeBSD.
Q3: Partitioning
Yes, I know you've seen several million questions on partitioning
schemes. I've read up on it, and I'd like to get some feedback on this
plan. All slices would be p/o ad1a, which has approx. 14,704MB free.
/ 128M
/usr 8192M
/home 3312M
/var 1024M
/tmp 1024M
swap 1024M (4 x physical)
Thanks in advance,
| George Ruch
| "Is there life in Clovis after Clovis Man?"
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