From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 12:36:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09566 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09460 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA08744 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:35:24 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aq29399; 30 Jun 96 18:25 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa15968; 30 Jun 96 16:11 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00892; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:24:47 GMT Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:24:47 GMT Message-Id: <199606301424.OAA00892@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: mnewton@io.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606292327.TAA01003@io.org> (mnewton@io.org) Subject: Re: windows NT and Freebsd on same pc Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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/