From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 22:17:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA04110 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04101 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from statsci.statsci.com ([206.63.206.9]) by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA07193 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:16:51 -0700 Received: by statsci.statsci.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.3 #3) id m0uqud8-0005iQC; Wed, 14 Aug 96 22:06 PDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by one.sabami.seaslug.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA07413; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:05:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199608150505.WAA07413@one.sabami.seaslug.org> To: JOHN Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot IDE -> SCSI ??? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Aug 1996 19:07:51 -0700." <01I89YZLKULU8WW3BG@POMONA.EDU> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <7410.840085520.1@one.sabami.seaslug.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:05:20 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk JOHN 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