From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 5 10:37:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.email.Arizona.EDU (phobos-adm.email.Arizona.EDU [128.196.133.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DAE37B43F for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bommarito (128.196.205.101) by phobos.email.Arizona.EDU (5.1.046) id 39B277CD00015460; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:37:36 -0700 Message-ID: <014b01c0175f$fb042a20$65cdc480@CMI.Arizona.EDU> From: "Hemanth Manda" To: "David Johnson" Cc: References: <39B52C49.491BCACA@acuson.com> Subject: Re: Multiple OS installation !! Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:37:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sounds great. But what would be the exact procedure to do this. I mean, how could I get about installing root and /usr on two different partitions. By the way, I ultimately got my dual boot system working at the cost of allocating 13 GB to free BSD. By implementing your idea, I could give more memory to Windows (which by the way eat's up harddisk pretty fast). Cheers :-) Hemanth. > One way around this is to create four partitions. Two of them should be > below the 1024th cylinder, and the others filling up the rest of the > space. These smaller partitions are the root partitions for their > respective systems (C: and /). For example: > > #1: 512 cylinders, dos-vfat filesystem, Windows C: > #2: 512 cylinders, bsd filesystem, FreeBSD / > #3: 13~ Gigs, dos-vfat filesystem, Windows D: > #4: 6~ Gigs, bsd filesystem, FreeBSD /usr > > David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message