Three questions...
George Ruch
george.ruch at 3lefties.com
Fri Jul 15 20:59:57 GMT 2005
lars <lars at gmx.at> wrote:
>George Ruch wrote:
>> Q1: I have two drives, laid out as follows:
>> Drive 1
>> /ad0a WinXP, NTFS, 16.06GB, primary
>> /ad0e data, NTFS, 12.58GB, extended
>>
>> Drive 2
>> /ad1a currently empty, 14.36GB, primary
>> (installation target)
>> /ad1e /ad0 backup, NTFS, 14.27GB, extended
>>
>> I'd like to use XP's NTLDR to manage the dual boot process. I've seen
>> the following trick for Linux ( www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html):
>>
>> - Boot into Linux, copy the first sector of the boot partition as follows:
>> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
>> - Move bootsect.lnx to WinXP root (C:\), and add the following line to
>> boot.ini:
>> C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
>>
>> Does this approach work with FreeBSD? Logic says it should, given the
>> similarities, but when has logic applied consistently to computers?
>
>I can't say anything about it, never done it, check google.
I'll do that, and I may try something a bit simpler in the
meantime. See my reply to David Kelley.
>It's spartan and displays ???? for Windows but works without fault.
>Otherwise gag.sourceforge.net is very recommendable and looks better too.
Thanks. I'll look into that.
>> Q3: Partitioning
>> [...] All slices would be p/o ad1a, which has approx. 14,704MB free.
>>
>> / 128M
>> /usr 8192M
>> /home 3312M
>> /var 1024M
>> /tmp 1024M
>> swap 1024M (4 x physical)
>That setup looks pretty alright imho.
>I'd go for this here instead:
>More for /usr,
>less for swap,
>that gives
>/ same
>/usr same or more
>/home same
>/var same
>swap RAM*2
In the meantime, I may strip the little machine (K6-3/400, 256MB
RAM, single 25 GB drive) and start with something a bit simpler
until I get more comfortable wit FreeBSD. So, following your
model, expand /usr and /home proportionally and leave the rest as
is.
| George Ruch
| "Is there life in Clovis after Clovis Man?"
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