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Date:      Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:55:30 -0700
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Hemanth Manda <manda@email.arizona.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple OS installation !!
Message-ID:  <39B53392.E5481E98@acuson.com>
References:  <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202D97B@URANUS> <39B52C49.491BCACA@acuson.com> <014b01c0175f$fb042a20$65cdc480@CMI.Arizona.EDU>

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Hemanth Manda wrote:
> 
> 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).

If Windows is eating up that much harddrive space all by itself, give it
a good quick slap upside the head!

What I would do is get decent partitioning software (like the FreeBSD
install :-) ) and make all of these primary partitions. FreeBSD doesn't
like DOS extended partitions. Read the help for exact instructions.
Windows will automatically make the first DOS partition C: and the
second D:, and ignore the others. Under FreeBSD, in the partition
labelling screen, create / from the first BSD partition and /usr from
the second. Again, read the directions. It won't actually do anything
until you choose commit, so feel free to play around with it.

It's not FreeBSD specific, but I do have a quick partitioning guide for
Linux on my website. The concepts will be the same. It's at
www.usermode.org/docs/howtoinstall.html

Warning: Do nothing until you read the manual and the specific help
pages in the install screen. Pedant Warning: I have answered the vague
general concepts involved in the question, but left the exact specifics
up to freebsd-questions.

David


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