From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 12: 5:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCBE37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:05:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@eng.ufl.edu) Received: from eng.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08558; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:04:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AA7E5E7.C0576FC1@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:04:55 -0500 From: Bob Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: g.todd@internet.co.nz Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation discs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 19:36:46 +1300 (NZDT) > From: g.todd@internet.co.nz > Subject: FW: Re: FreeBSD installation discs > > Re installing FreeBSD 4.2, I was intending to buy a computer with a large > Disc(30GB) and dual boot Windows Me and FreeBSD. However, after reading > the documentation on the 1024 cylinder boot limitations I am now wondering > whether that is a smart approach. It will work fine if the system BIOS understands large drives. The 1024 cylinder limitation disappeared some time ago. If the BIOS doesn't support it, then create a small partition at the start of the disk for the FreeBSD root (like 70 MB), then do the Windows partition, then the rest of FreeBSD. >Would it be better to go for a twin HD > disc machine to overcome these problems. e.g. 10Gb for Windows and separate > 20Gb drive for FreeBSD. FreeBSD will be my primary operating system, > Windows for specific non UNIX software. I dual boot Win 98 and FreeBSD on a 20GB drive. Windows gets the first 6 GB, FreeBSD gets the next 6GB, and the rest is shared by the two as a FAT32 partition, where I keep any files that need to be available to either system (e.g. most documents that I work on, MP3 files, etc.). Technically, I could have just let FreeBSD access the Windows partition and used it for my shared files, but this way if I ever have to re-install either operating system my data files should be safe, and still available to the other OS if the re-install gets interrupted (well, at least the odds are better). I find it easiest to install Windows first, then FreeBSD, and let FreeBSD install its boot manager. If you were using Windows NT or 2000, I would suggest teaching its boot loader to make FreeBSD one of your boot choices instead of using the FreeBSD boot manager, but for Me I assume you should treat it like 95 or 98, i.e. use the FreeBSD boot manager. > > Glenn Todd > Wellington > New Zealand > - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message