From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 19:27:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A850816A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:27:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george.ruch@3lefties.com) Received: from server.3lefties.com (server.3lefties.com [66.18.174.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49F543D78 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george.ruch@3lefties.com) Received: from [192.168.0.99] ([208.50.195.90]) by server.3lefties.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA19467 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:24:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.336 [267.8.15]); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:27:41 -0600 Message-ID: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:27:41 -0600 From: George Ruch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Subject: Three questions... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:27:46 -0000 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?" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.336 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 7/14/2005