Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:53:49 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Subject: Re: New Computer System Message-ID: <20060224115349.GB1411@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0602232050y4d5828cldb0fdb370f6cc842@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060222.164330.8420.330983@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> <d7195cff0602232050y4d5828cldb0fdb370f6cc842@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2006-02-23 22:50, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2/22/06, gs_stoller@juno.com <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. Sure it does. They just have slice numbers >= 5. You can't boot from a logical slice though. > Jerry McAllister's advice remains sound. True :)
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