Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:05:20 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@mailhost.statsci.com> To: JOHN <JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot IDE -> SCSI ??? Message-ID: <199608150505.WAA07413@one.sabami.seaslug.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Aug 1996 19:07:51 -0700." <01I89YZLKULU8WW3BG@POMONA.EDU>
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JOHN <JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU> wrote:
> I have two 1GB drives, one IDE, the other SCSI - will I be able to put the root
> partition on the SCSI drive, but still boot off the IDE, using only the FreeBSD
> boot manager?
Why not just put a 30Mb or so root partition on your IDE drive and not worry
about it? I've got mine arranged like this:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 34111 19395 11987 62% /
mfs:19 15583 1 15270 0% /tmp
/dev/sd0s4e 629702 441910 137415 76% /files
/dev/sd0s3e 497834 405052 52955 88% /usr
/dev/wd0s2e 82191 40289 35326 53% /usr/X11R6
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
with my fstab:
/dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s2b /tmp mfs rw,-s=32000,-i=10240,-m=2 0 0
/dev/sd0s4e /files ufs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s3e /usr ufs rw 1 2
/dev/wd0s2e /usr/X11R6 ufs rw 1 2
/dev/sd0s2b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sd0s4b none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
/dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
and it seems to work just fine (I don't claim that it is the most optimal
setup, but it seems fine to me). It just so happens that I put my X11 stuff
back on my IDE drive just because I had a nicely sized place for it, but
you don't need to. I figure it's a lot easier in the long run to just put
my boot partition on the drive that DOS/BIOS/whatever will try to boot
from.
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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