From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 23:50:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.tbv.se (smtp2.tbv.se [193.15.92.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0AB37B4D7 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp2.tbv.se (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eA37oX329443; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:50:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.15.92.37), claiming to be "tbvhks12" via SMTP by smtp2.tbv.se, id smtpdS29441; Fri Nov 3 08:50:33 2000 From: "James A Wilde" To: "Jeffrey Vehrs" Cc: Subject: RE: Compaq laptop - W2K/FBSD slice scheme Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:53:05 +0100 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <20001102183202.A96574@hydrogen.vehrs.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Vehrs [mailto:jwvehrs@netzero.net] > Well, how big is ur hd? From my experience with W2K & FBSD on > TP600 w/ 4Gb hd, Sorry, Jeffrey, an essential piece of information was lacking. The hard disk is 12 Gb. > 1.5Gb for W2K & 2.5 for FBSD. I used "Auto Defaults for all!" in Disklabel > Editor. Anyway, I'd allow at least 2Gb for W2K if you have 6Gb or more hd. > Really, it's totally up to you on how much you plan to use OS. My question really addressed the problem of getting the whole of / and the Windows boot partition within the limits set for each operating system, which, I seem to remember involved 1023 cylinders. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message