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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!uunet!easix!knobel.gun.de!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: optimal HD partition ? Date: 18 Sep 1994 11:28:22 GMT Organization: home, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 47 Message-ID: <35h88n$84@knobel.gun.de> References: <salem.184.779120667@hauk.hsr.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Salem, Lazaro (salem@hauk.hsr.no) wrote: : Hi, gurus! : Ok. finally I got the Quantum LPS540S (540MB) SCSI HD with the : AHA1542cf adapter right now. : So I am ready to install FreeBSD + Xfree86, together with DOS+MS-Windows : (essentiually because I am an intensive Matlab user, and also because I : want a smoooooooth transition to Unix, sorry) : 1) I wonder if somebody would like to suggest me the way of : partitioning the disk (number of partitions and size) if : there is any optimal way of doing it. RTFM: 386BSD FAQ, FreeBSD FAQ and FreeBSD's Installation README in the toplevel directory of any released distribution ! : 2) I also heard of different formating programs (I got pfdisk (DOS)). : Any comment? DOS and FreeBSD root partition should be on the first disk to avoid boot trouble (SCSI ID 0). Install DOS as the first partition. After that install FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, it determines automatically the rest of the free space. Be carefull when entering the drive geometry. Do use the DOS values otherwise you destroy your DOS partition. I.e: maxtor8760S|FreeBSD installation generated:\ :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:\ :nc#643:ns#32:nt#64:\ :se#512:\ 512 Bytes / Sector 64 heads 32 sectors 643 cyl = 643 MB FreeBSD asks you about the partitions you want to install .... etc.... Here what I did: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 15871 6912 7371 48% / /dev/sd0e 39455 418 35091 1% /var /dev/sd0f 90743 31058 59685 34% /var/spool/news /dev/sd0g 301855 243243 28426 90% /usr -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de -