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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question regarding installation of FreeBSD
Date: 14 Aug 1996 07:21:54 GMT
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Thomas Schenk <tschenk@unisql.com> wrote:
> Drive 1: Drive 2: Drive 3:
> 400 Meg DOS Primary 100 Meg FreeBSD 313 Meg Linux
> 50 Meg Linux (root fs) 16 Meg FreeBSD Swap 16 Meg Linux Swap
> 50 Meg FreeBSD (root fs)
>
> Is it possible to do this?
I think so. Btw., make the 160 MB on drive 2 a _single_ fdisk
partition. Unlike Linux, FreeBSD comes with partitioning of its own
(and calls the BSD partitions `partitions', while it calls the fdisk
units `slices' to {increase,reduce} confusion).
16 MB swap appears to be few, btw. The rule of thumb is to spend at
least twice your RAM size. You might regret it later otherwise.
You probably don't need 50 MB for the root f/s, so perhaps you can
reduce this to 35 or 40 MB, and use the remaining 10 or 15 MB as swap,
too. It is okay to have multiple swap partitions.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)