Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:01:09 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp Message-ID: <oprqvzr7kp0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030616235354.GH91604@dds.nl> References: <20030616204048.GA3309@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030616211505.GB36733@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030616235354.GH91604@dds.nl>
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:53:54 +0200, Alex de Kruijff = <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> 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 y= ou = > 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 partitio= n = unless one's dual-booting with Win98, in which case Win2K makes an exten= ded = partition on the disk for both Wins, then a logical partition in which t= o = install itself, in spite of the user's (or at any rate, my) best attempt= s = 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 t= han = for the sake of experimentation? Re what Alex suggests, it sounds like you have your FreeBSD setup alread= y = 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 edit= ion = of Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" - I'm sure there are other good = sources as well) will provide varying and possibly beneficial perspectiv= es = for anyone who *is* setting up a FreeBSD system. Hmm - "danger zone"? Jud
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