Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:24:47 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: mnewton@io.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: windows NT and Freebsd on same pc Message-ID: <199606301424.OAA00892@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606292327.TAA01003@io.org> (mnewton@io.org)
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> On a new pc I need NT and freebsd on the same drive. NT to test out commerce > server stuff etc and freebsd as a fast switch backup to our server. > on a 1.6gb drive I would assume that I should put nt first (1gb) and freebsd > in the last 600Mbyte. I guess I can run fdisk from nt to switcth active > partitions. > Any better ideas ?????? First of all, the root FreeBSD partition must be in the first 1024 cylinders (528? MB for most hard disks). This is a PC limitation, not a FreeBSD one. However, the rest of the FreeBSD system can be anywhere on the disk. My suggestion would be, using your figures:- 0-20MB FreeBSD slice with root partition 20-1020MB WinNT slice 1020-1600MB FreeBSD slice with other partitions (usr, var, ...). (BTW a "slice" is what most PC people call a "partition" - a FreeBSD "partition" is a filesystem within a FreeBSD "slice") Also, if you accept the option to install a boot manager during the installation, this will allow you to select the OS to run when the system boots without having to mess around with fdisk. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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