From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 00:59:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4810D37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:59:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522A143F75 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186])18questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:53:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5H7rflP006810;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.6p2/8.12.6/Submit) id h5H7raLY006809; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:53:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:53:36 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: To: Jud Message-id: <20030617075335.GB4310@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <20030616204048.GA3309@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030616211505.GB36733@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030616235354.GH91604@dds.nl> cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Tobias Roth Subject: Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:59:34 -0000 On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:01:09PM -0400, Jud wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:53:54 +0200, Alex de Kruijff > wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > [snip] > >>Hmmm... It's a long time since I had any dealings with a Microsoft OS, > >>but I seem to remember that they always preferred to go in the first > >>partition (slice, in FreeBSD parlance) on the drive. Dunno if that's > >>still true. > >> > > > >That goes for most OS out there. If the boot record are at a certain ... > >(fill in the rigth unity and value) then the system simply don't > >startup. FreeBSD has some filesystems that you wanna have a the front > >of the disk because of the performance. I recond the best thing to do is > >create tree or four partions. Two for FreeBSD and one or two for XP. > > > >The first partions holds / (128M) , the swap (2x mem, of 1x mem if you > >got two disks) and /var (256M). The secord partion hold the XP fs. The > >thirth hold the rest of FreeBSD fs and the fourth old more for XP if you > >are likly to experiance problems. (aka have the second partion in the > >dainger zone) > > > >Alex > > Windows 2000 seems to want to be installed in the first primary partition > unless one's dual-booting with Win98, in which case Win2K makes an extended > partition on the disk for both Wins, then a logical partition in which to > install itself, in spite of the user's (or at any rate, my) best attempts > to have it otherwise. Whether WinXP is similar I wouldn't know, but why > try anything else (than installing to the first slice/partition) other than > for the sake of experimentation? > > Re what Alex suggests, it sounds like you have your FreeBSD setup already > done, so I'll just note his preferences are different enough than others > I've seen suggested here that (1) Googling this mailing list and (2) > reading a few modern references (e.g., the Handbook and the new 4th edition > of Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" - I'm sure there are other good > sources as well) will provide varying and possibly beneficial perspectives > for anyone who *is* setting up a FreeBSD system. Hmm - "danger zone"? > > Jud