From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 14:35:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA25672 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:35:15 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA25665 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:35:14 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00824; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:35:06 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199508312135.OAA00824@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: problems with initial FreeBSD (2.0.5 CD) installation attempts To: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, scott@statsci.com In-Reply-To: from "Scott Blachowicz" at Aug 31, 95 01:51:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1324 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi- > > # ID 1st Last Name Start,length My comment > 1 6 0 189 DOSbi 63,766017 C:\ > 2 165 190 249 unkno 766080,241920 fbsd root & swap? > 3 6 250 523 DOSbi 1008000,1104768 E:\ > 4 0 0 0 empty 0,0 > > SCSI disk: C/H/S=1009/43/63 > 1 6 0 90 DOSbi 63,246456 D:\ > 2 165 91 165 unkno 246519,203175 fbsd swap & more? > 3 165 166 506 unkno 449694,923769 fbsd /usr > 4 131 507 1008 unkno 1373463,1359918 Linux > > I've tried various combinations of deleting sd0s2 & sd0s3, then creating a > sd0s2, but that left me without a sd0s3 at all, which I thought might have > caused a problem (having partitions 1,2,4 with no 3). My original intent was > to do this: no that is quite legal the s number refers to the slot in the 4 element array.. in that case the 3rd slot isn't marked as 'valid'.. that's all. > > ** have / & some misc stuff on the wd0s2 slice. > ** use the sd0s2 slice as a swap partition for both Linux & FreeBSD. > Presumably this would involve laying a disklabel on it (I seem to remember > Joerg Wunsch describing this recently) from /etc/rc* somewhere. no.. to use the whole slice, you just need to add a line in your fstab for /dev/sd0s2 (do it after you're installed) don't label it.. > ** use the sd0s3 slice for my /usr partition. you must disklabel THAT to have usr and more there..