From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 5:18: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BB337B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 05:18:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE67E43E88 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 05:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAODI1Qf021218 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:18:01 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAODHuFM021217 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:17:56 GMT Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:17:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd slice - 2 hdd's Message-ID: <20021124131756.GE19837@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1417.192.168.1.4.1038137355.squirrel@webmail.probsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1417.192.168.1.4.1038137355.squirrel@webmail.probsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message