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From: awnbreel@panix.com (Michael R Weholt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual booting between FreeBSDand Win95
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 12:18:06 GMT
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In article <5e0ksu$d23@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com wrote:
>FreeBSD will install, as an option, a simple, easy-to-use boot manager
>that allows you to choose to boot from any of your active partitions.
>
>I have FreeBSD and Windows 95 on separate drives, and it's trivially
>simple to switch back and forth between them using this.
I'm planning to install FreeBSD this weekend on my Win95
pentium (a home machine, no network). I have two drives that I've
partitioned the heck out of (I hate 'slackage'). I have a ~500meg
partition available as the second partition on drive #1. I have a
~475meg partition available as the first partition on drive #2. I
have a ~125meg partition on each drive available for a swap space.
Q1: Can I install FreeBSD on the second partition on Drive #1?
Should I? Or, should I put it on the first partition on Drive #2?
Or, no difference?
Q2: Somebody suggested that I might want to put the swap space on
whatever drive FreeBSD *isn't* on. The idea being to take advantage
of the two separate drive mechanisms, less wear&tear moving across
across the disk getting to and from the swap. Does that make any
sense? (BTW, I have 40meg memory.)
Thanks.
Michael R Weholt
http://www.panix.com/~mrw/