From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 11:46:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.xs4all.nl (smtp7.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892E937B71B for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thyssen@xs4all.nl) Received: from unknown (jult.xs4all.nl [213.84.27.81]) by smtp7.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA21786 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:46:35 +0100 (CET) From: Julius To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Best Maxtor HD-partitioning with FreeBSD ? Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 20:46:20 +0100 Organization: Laughing on the outside, crying on the inside... http://jthz.com/ Message-ID: <3ai2atkfs274jc6akmvjguuhe0pb535ql1@2u.i.am> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Recently bought a 20+ G Maxtor HD, it needs to boot using maxblast.exe since the BIOS in the board does not support such large drives (the capacity limit is at 8.4 G, and no BIOS-updates available!) Any experience in using these types of boot-drive-loaders in combination with a FreeBSD boot-partition on the same drive ? I'm only used to using it in a win-PC. Also some other questions: - How large can/may/should the partitions best be with FreeBSD ? - Are there any disadvantages starting FreeBSD from a DOS-formatted partition? Can it boot on/from a FAT32 partition as well ? - What is a nice example FBSD server-setup with a drive of that size? I need to run mail, http, ftp, DNS and a forwarded internet-connection to a Windows98se machine. Any pointers to URLs with info on all this are very welcome. (I don't mean the install help-texts, the info is just not in there, nor is it in any FAQ. Either that or it takes you a year of reading to get to the info you're looking for..) tnx - J P.S. Are there any screenshot-collections to be found on the web of FreeBSD users' screens/desktops? I can't find more than some sporadic accidental prinstscreens here and there... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message