From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 22:19:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA14758 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DGS.dgsys.com (root@dgs.dgsys.com [204.97.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA14751 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from justine.elastica.com by DGS.dgsys.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AB28982; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:16:04 -0400 Received: (from robert@localhost) by justine.elastica.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04811; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:56:39 -0400 (EDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partioning.... References: <199604180110.KAA11850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> From: robert@elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) Date: 17 Apr 1996 23:56:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: Michael Smith's message of Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:40:25 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: Organization: x Lines: 35 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk writes: Oops you're right... it's been a while since I've touched FreeBSD's terminology. So my only concern then is whether the root partition in the FreeBSD slice is wholely under <1024 cylinders then. That's reasonable as long as other partitions are allowed to be above. Since I'm not, unfortunately using extended translation. >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 [[ -- "Under the circumstances I will sit down." (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)