From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 5 10:58: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A494F37B424 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2179; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:00:30 -0700 Message-ID: <39B53392.E5481E98@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:55:30 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hemanth Manda Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple OS installation !! References: <39B52C49.491BCACA@acuson.com> <014b01c0175f$fb042a20$65cdc480@CMI.Arizona.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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