From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 18:01:24 2003 Return-Path: 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 DBDB537B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B8D43FBF for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FB56CE46; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:01:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:01:11 -0400 X-Epoch: 1055811671 X-Sasl-enc: wNl1ZoSbevaEaQfGtJcmAA Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.65.152.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.65.152]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D072D4A3; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:01:08 -0400 (EDT) To: Alex de Kruijff , Matthew Seaman , Tobias Roth , questions@freebsd.org References: <20030616204048.GA3309@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030616211505.GB36733@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030616235354.GH91604@dds.nl> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:01:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030616235354.GH91604@dds.nl> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 2946 Subject: Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:01:25 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:53:54 +0200, Alex de Kruijff = wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] >> Hmmm... It's a long time since I had any dealings with a Microsoft OS= , >> but I seem to remember that they always preferred to go in the first >> partition (slice, in FreeBSD parlance) on the drive. Dunno if that's= >> still true. >> > > That goes for most OS out there. If the boot record are at a certain .= ... = > (fill in the rigth unity and value) then the system simply don't > startup. FreeBSD has some filesystems that you wanna have a the front > of the disk because of the performance. I recond the best thing to do = is = > create tree or four partions. Two for FreeBSD and one or two for XP. > > The first partions holds / (128M) , the swap (2x mem, of 1x mem if you= = > got two disks) and /var (256M). The secord partion hold the XP fs. The= = > thirth hold the rest of FreeBSD fs and the fourth old more for XP if y= ou = > are likly to experiance problems. (aka have the second partion in the = > dainger zone) > > Alex Windows 2000 seems to want to be installed in the first primary partitio= n = unless one's dual-booting with Win98, in which case Win2K makes an exten= ded = partition on the disk for both Wins, then a logical partition in which t= o = install itself, in spite of the user's (or at any rate, my) best attempt= s = to have it otherwise. Whether WinXP is similar I wouldn't know, but why= = try anything else (than installing to the first slice/partition) other t= han = for the sake of experimentation? Re what Alex suggests, it sounds like you have your FreeBSD setup alread= y = done, so I'll just note his preferences are different enough than others= = I've seen suggested here that (1) Googling this mailing list and (2) = reading a few modern references (e.g., the Handbook and the new 4th edit= ion = of Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" - I'm sure there are other good = sources as well) will provide varying and possibly beneficial perspectiv= es = for anyone who *is* setting up a FreeBSD system. Hmm - "danger zone"? Jud