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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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