From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 04:50:13 2006 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 8BD4216A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:50:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEA043D45 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:50:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s8so171701wxc for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PDrsTPUQjevchf/y/cofSXOWiZ1695nTNjCD/AHxpTuI1BEc3aXqQL8KPmMBax7haebeWB9TO8wmfTeeMUSStFyfKuSPycYgtl8KuRRlXAibZvjLFaYYQDnie/vrs8DEF1BYU0oJf2xbhwnq7PkTO6OFFTJehKI0nVmb7l+Eu4c= Received: by 10.70.43.2 with SMTP id q2mr498983wxq; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.58.15 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:50:12 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" In-Reply-To: <20060222.164330.8420.330983@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060222.164330.8420.330983@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Computer System 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, 24 Feb 2006 04:50:13 -0000 On 2/22/06, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote: > I bought a new system (it was on sale), it has 180 Gigabytes > of hard drive. Naturally I want to slice it up, so where can I find > the documentation on the slice/partition process and table. As I > recall, I can make 4 hard slices/partitions and then I can further > break-down 1 (or more of them) to have logical slices/partitions. > Where can I find documentation on the logical slices/partitions and > how to use them? Can I boot into a ( FreeBSD ) logical slice, and > if so, how do I do it? (For the 4 hard slices, one uses function > keys F1 thru F4 .) Has someone already setup the capability of > booting into logical slices, and if so, where can I get it and its > documentation? >From a 40-50 minute excursion into qemu, FreeBSD does not enjoy linux logical partitions (slices), and I could not get it to install into one. Jerry McAllister's advice remains sound. -- --