From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 18:17:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA02057 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA02052 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA11850; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:40:25 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604180110.KAA11850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Partioning.... To: steffi@DGS.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:40:25 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Robert Nicholson" at Apr 17, 96 04:44:18 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[