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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.it.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New user needs some help Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 20:50:13 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 38 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <244e4282.u9t27e.65ba4@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <335a556e.12505633@news.demon.co.uk> (from pussyface@pussy.com (pussygalore)) (at Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:00:00 GMT) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39419 Hi Kevin, on Apr 20 you wrote: > 1) Get a new hhd, and have a partion of about 500mb for W95 and the > rest for Freebsd. > > 2) Partion the old hdd with something like partion magic and have > about half the hdd space for each o/s. > > 3) Get the new hdd and have it as a second one, re-install W95 and > have Freebsd on the second drive. Obviously, there are pros and cons to having multiple OS's with their own hard drives, and multiple OS's sharing a single hard drive. Ultimately, you are the only one who can make that decision: - what do you want to do with each OS? - how much disk space do you know that you will need for the applications and data files that you already, or really expect to, have? - do you plan to do any program development, or OS modifications (which require OS source files) ? - and so on With only a single 500MB HD, you CAN set up W95 and FBSD, but you won't have much room, and you probably won't be able to compile a new kernel (to remove unneeded drivers, et cetera) or load and compile X-Windows. The FreeBSD Web page on installation has a rough estimate for disk space related to several different OS/application setups. Make SURE you read this (www.freebsd.org). Then there are issues of ease of use, ease of management, ease of change, ease of growth. Personally, if I had two drives of "sufficient" size (say, at LEAST 500MB for each OS), then I would set up one drive for each OS. This simplifies just about everything, and also helps to insure that using one OS doesn't do something unnice to the disk space that the other OS uses. So, IF you can, _I_ would recommend your option #3. Others will have different opinions, as there are MANY pros and cons.