From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 09:32:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 09CE616A41C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:32:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7047E43D49 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:31:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:32:43 +0100 Message-ID: <42DCC88E.1010207@dial.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:31:58 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Kendall Axe References: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net> <20050718142635.E7170@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <42DC53BE.6040205@axe.homelinux.net> <6.1.0.6.2.20050718190554.11fe1e10@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jul 2005 09:32:43.0240 (UTC) FILETIME=[D06D0E80:01C58C44] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot on a separate partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:32:01 -0000 Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > That's what I'm going for now. 100MB in / and the rest of the disk > given to /usr and swap. Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea > of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a > separate partition. Being pragmatic, the problems you are facing are because you have such a tiny disk in an ancient PC. This puts you in a very small minority of FreeBSD users. A separate /boot is new to 5.X and I doubt it was done to help you out of this situation. Developer effort is limited and since FreeBSD has never used a separate /boot, it's unlikely to get anyone's attention to do it that way unless there is a very good reason, and tiny disks are unlikely to be it. The oldest PC I have that runs FreeBSD (also a Pentium) has a 4 and an 8Gb disk, and no problem booting off the ends of either. It's who knows how old, and even charities don't want it because they can't think of anything useful that anyone could do with it, even if it was the bees knees when I got it. Depending on where you are located, you might be able to find something very cheap (but still better than yours) in classifieds, computer fairs, 2nd hand shops or the local tip. Best, --Alex