Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 12:31:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Wersan <wersans-f@iwvisp.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508122417.27908B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199805080906.4280800@iwvisp.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Stephen Wersan wrote: > I know you can't write a book that will cover all the peculiar combinations > of hardware and software that a user may have -- that is why you have this > e-mail address. Yup. :) Most everthing checks out. > Matrox Mystique 220 Graphics Adapter (PCI) I don't remember which X server this goes to -- the SVGA or the I128. > USR Sportster 33.6 fax-modem (ISA) These are not happy right now -- they have this bad habit of not probing. > Floppies 5.25" (B - 1.2M), 3.5" (A - 1.44M), and > LS-120 (H) The wfd device will support that ls-120. > Acer 24X CDROM reader (F) -- bootable, but in the > trial described above, I executed install out of DOS. You want to boot from the CD -- it's sooo much easier. > SOFTWARE -- On the 4.55G (4338 blocks) hard disk I have a 338-block primary > DOS partition (C) and two 2000-block NTFS > partitions. The first of these (D) contains Windows > NT 4.0, and except for a recycle bin, the second (E) is essentially > empty. On the DOS partition, I have installed System > Commander which I use on boot-up to choose between > MS-DOS (v 6.00) and NT. Unless you convince me > otherwise, I would like to continue using System Commander, > adding FreeBSD as a third menu item. I would be more > convinced on the basis of necessity than installation > convenience. In other words, it looks like this: sd0 4.5G 380M DOS 2G NTFS 2G NTFS sd1 9.1G 2G NTFS 2G NTFS Am I reading you right there? (We avoid using disk letters since it's impossible to tell what physical disk you're talking about.) > After reading thru the first three chapters and most of the fourth, I am > inclined toward putting most of FreeBSD on the larger disk. But both you > (fourth bullet, p. 62) and the Linux books I have read indicate that there > is an advantage to putting the swap partition on another disk. With so much > disk space and 64M memory, is this a realistic concern? YES, especially if you run Xwindows or other multimedia applications. > Is there any > advantage to be gained by putting more than the swap partition on the > smaller disk? You get a little speedup since the system can issue commands to each disk separately. It doesn't have to wait for one to return before issuing a command to the other disk, like for IDE. This buys you speed in interleaving accesses and saving head movements. > How does one go about installing FreeBSD in such a two-disk > manner? In allotting my currently unused disk space, I would like to > reserve a modest amount for a future Linux playground. It's not easy from the installer, since you have to partition and label two separate disks. If I were you, I wouldn't worry about it. The performance gain really shows if you have a busy server, but for a workstation, .... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980508122417.27908B-100000>