Raid / Dual booting / Really need help.

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Sun Sep 11 20:21:25 PDT 2005


At 07:26 PM 9/11/2005, jon.why wrote:
>hi
>
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>my hardware configuration:
>         Asus K8S-MX AIO Athlon 64 Motherboard
>         SEMPRON 2600
>         1 Gig DDR MEMORY
>         SEAGATE 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB
>         MAXTOR 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB
>
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>i want to:
>         -partition the Maxtor into 80G and a 20G partitions.

Easy enough so far...

>         -create a Raid 0 between the Seagate and the 80G Maxtor 
> partition (is that possible?)

It's possible, but why? and which OS would use the resulting 160GB 
file system?

>         -install FreeBSD on the 20G partition for a dual-boot system.

That's easy enough.  Depending on what other OS you plan on 
installing, it might be easier to install the other first, and put 
FreeBSD on after.  (not all OS's give you an option of how to handle 
the MBR at install time)

-Glenn


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>i have not yet attempted this. your thoughts?
>
>
>thx,
>jon
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