Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:40:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: steffi@DGS.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partioning.... Message-ID: <199604180110.KAA11850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960417163623.13151A-100000@DGS> from "Robert Nicholson" at Apr 17, 96 04:44:18 pm
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Robert Nicholson stands accused of saying: > > FreeBSD 2.1 requires a boot partition to be a primary right? > > What's an acceptable boot partition size ... 10 MB for recompiling the > kernel? Er. You don't understand 8) FreeBSD lives inside a single 'primary' partition, which is known as a 'slice'. This slice is then divided into 'partitions'. You will want at least a 100M slice to install FreeBSD. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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