Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:10:27 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paritioning scheme on MBR disk doubts Message-ID: <9459f921-3b89-b353-414c-b863686d1e67@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <MW4PR01MB6401DA1B3479DE69944C7D5BC4C79@MW4PR01MB6401.prod.exchangelabs.com> References: <MW4PR01MB640175FEDE09CAD451A9AA0BC4C79@MW4PR01MB6401.prod.exchangelabs.com> <d21dc1de-87dc-8e45-260b-cf7baf23998a@holgerdanske.com> <MW4PR01MB6401DA1B3479DE69944C7D5BC4C79@MW4PR01MB6401.prod.exchangelabs.com>
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On 8/26/21 11:32 AM, Javier wrote:
> And, so, I want to be sure what is allowed given the questions I made.
> If I'm correct in my assumption with the 3rd case shown, or totally
> wrong.
I tried multi-boot back in the day. It was an unreliable PITA. The
various Linux mailing lists still have posts and replies by people with
this form of self-harm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_harm
So, I installed a second HDD, installed a second OS on it, and selected
the boot device via HDD jumpers and/or Setup.
When I got tired of the hardware inconvenience and wanted more than two
OS choices, I installed drive racks in my desktop tower chassis, bought
extra drives, and dedicate one drive to each OS instance. (This was the
IDE era.)
As time progressed, I was able to standardize on 2.5" SATA drives, 2.5"
SATA chassis racks, and laptops with externally-accessible 2.5" SATA
drive bays.
The final improvement was virtualization.
Now I can choose my hardware, choose my base OS, and run multiple OS's
at the same time. :-)
The next challenge will come when I want NVMe drives everywhere.
> I could do all automatic, but I'm those that prefer to do manually
> knowing what I'm doing. Or at least, what is happening in the
> background.
KISS. Use the FreeBSD installer and choose the simplest options. Use a
camera for screen captures and type up good notes in a second computer.
Consider it an experiment that you will repeat several times over the
next year as you learn.
Keep your data on a separate device (better yet, RAID).
Get good at backup/ restore, archiving, and imaging.
David
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