From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 00:44:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23741 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23726 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA09966; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:44:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: kramsey@feist.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two operating systems and the partitioning In-Reply-To: <346C8BCC.5F3@feist.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 kramsey@feist.com wrote: > I know that there are special considerations as to how to partition a > hard drive for FreeBSD and another operating system. > > I can no longer find documents containing this information. Could you > please direct me to the information that I need. The main problem is if you need to create a partition table or not. For maximum compatibility you want to, but you can't use the entire disk because of limitations in the partition table. However, some OSs and boot managers need to have it otherwise they think the disklabel is garbage and overwrite it. For safety, turn it on; if the machine is dedicated FreeBSD then don't bother. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat for more info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major