From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 24 8:53:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd01.granitepost.com (fbsd01.granitepost.com [209.150.104.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE0337B5C3 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clabrown@granitepost.com) Received: from thunder (thunder.granitepost.com [209.150.104.140]) by fbsd01.granitepost.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA11901 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:34:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Clarence Brown" To: Subject: best new drive / dual boot strategy Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:58:34 -0400 Message-ID: <001c01bfddf5$0dc4f1c0$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had a couple machines running freebsd for some time, but should still be considered a newby, so please give me verbose answers and don't assume I know what I'm doing ;) I was running out of space on my Win98 machine with a 8 gig SCSI drive. I've purchased a new 18 gig SCSI drive. My old drive was partitioned into a 6 gig C: and 2 gig d: I'm thinking using the new drive for Win98 (sorry, most of my work is still in MS) and using the old 8 Gig for FreeBSD 4.x Concerning dual boot, how do I need to arrange the 18 gig? Do I need a small FreeBSD partition near the front to boot FreeBSD, or can the boot utility just jump to the start of the 2nd SCSI drive when FreeBSD is selected for boot? If you have a suggestion for how you would arrange this please advise. Thanks, Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message