Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:17:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd slice - 2 hdd's Message-ID: <20021124131756.GE19837@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <1417.192.168.1.4.1038137355.squirrel@webmail.probsd.org> References: <1417.192.168.1.4.1038137355.squirrel@webmail.probsd.org>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:29:15AM -0500, Michael Sharp wrote:
> My wife's business wants to have a freebsd server and they gave her a old
> computer to install freebsd on. The machine has 2 small hdd's ( seen as
> ad0 and ad1 ) and I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting
> the / , /var, /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr
> slice on ad1 and installing the freebsd boot manager to ad0?
That should work fine. You don't even need to install the boot
manager on ad0 --- the default MBR should work perfectly well. You
only need the boot manager when you've got several different OS's on
the same machine --- not when there's just the one OS, even if spread
over several disks.
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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