Multi Boot Installtion FreeBSd+Fedora+Debian
Anuj Singh
anujhere at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 10:54:04 UTC 2007
Hello,
I am sorry, actually it was working but taking too much time, and at
that time I was unable to go to any tty, to avoid mishap I used knoppix
qtparted and formated that partition (incomplete installation of BSD)
back to fat32 file system.
Now started my beastie installation , in fdisk utility I used "T" option
giving it 165 and partitioned, I have one confusion according to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
says
Table 2-2. Partition Layout for First Disk
Partition
Filesystem
Size
Description
a
/
100 MB
This is the root
filesystem. Every
other filesystem
will be mounted
somewhere under
this one. 100 MB
is a reasonable
size for this
filesystem. You
will not be
storing too much
data on it, as a
regular FreeBSD
install will put
about 40 MB of
data here. The
remaining space is
for temporary
data, and also
leaves expansion
space if future
versions of
FreeBSD need more
space in /.
b
N/A
2-3 x RAM
The system's swap
space is kept on
this partition.
Choosing the right
amount of swap
space can be a bit
of an art. A good
rule of thumb is
that your swap
space should be
two or three times
as much as the
available physical
memory (RAM). You
should also have
at least 64 MB of
swap, so if you
have less than
32 MB of RAM in
your computer then
set the swap
amount to 64 MB.
If you have more
than one disk then
you can put swap
space on each
disk. FreeBSD will
then use each disk
for swap, which
effectively speeds
up the act of
swapping. In this
case, calculate
the total amount
of swap you need
(e.g., 128 MB),
and then divide
this by the number
of disks you have
(e.g., two disks)
to give the amount
of swap you should
put on each disk,
in this example,
64 MB of swap per
disk.
e
/var
50 MB
The /var directory
contains files
that are
constantly
varying; log
files, and other
administrative
files. Many of
these files are
read-from or
written-to
extensively during
FreeBSD's
day-to-day
running. Putting
these files on
another filesystem
allows FreeBSD to
optimize the
access of these
files without
affecting other
files in other
directories that
do not have the
same access
pattern.
f
/usr
Rest of disk
All your other
files will
typically be
stored in /usr and
its
subdirectories.
when I followed 100 MB for my root "/" it said 118MB is minimum
requirement.
So I gave
120MB for /
1024MB 2x Physical Ram
300MB /var
200MB /tmp
and rest is for /usr.
^target is to use X over Freebsd.
Problem I facing now is:
1:My debian is showing error dropping me to fsck,
running e2fsck on hdc gives can not read superblock,
^I did some mistake with partitions.
Fedora is working fine,
At the boot manager time I installed Freebsd boot manager I had only 1
option to boot (I will read manual if it recognizes Linux installation
same as grub do).
again reinstalled grub with fedora core4 (rescue mode)
#chroot /mnt/sysimage
#grub-install /dev/hdc
added following lines in /etc/grub.conf
title FreeBSD 6.1
rootnoverify (hd0,a)
chainloader +1
I can boot into FreeBSD with this entry.
Problem
1:it is taking some extra time same as it was taking at the installation
period. (most probably due to many partitions).
===============================================================
New fdisk -l shows
Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77622 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 6089 77600 36041827+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc3 * 29 5436 2725632 a5 FreeBSD
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc5 * 6089 6296 104359+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc6 6296 12384 3068383+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc7 12384 22536 5116671 83 Linux
/dev/hdc8 22536 24560 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/hdc9 24560 25580 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc10 25580 31668 3068383+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc11 31668 33724 1036161 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/hdc12 33724 33931 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdc13 33932 36975 1534176 83 Linux
/dev/hdc14 36976 37995 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc15 37996 52212 7164958+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
and grub shell output is:
GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
completions of a device/filename.]
grub> root (hd0,
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 2, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type
0xa5
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 7, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 8, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 9, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 10, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
Partition num: 11, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 12, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 13, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 14, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Thanks and regards
anugunj "anuj"
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 11:23 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:52:22 +0530
> Anuj Singh <anujhere at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now with the FreeBSD 6.1 installation cd , Installations stops after
> > detecting my hard disk. I unplugged my 2nd IDE (with data) as it
> > sometimes it shows me data read error thinking it may causing problem.
> > Still the problem is same, i can not proceed beyond the detection of my
> > first IDE detection.
>
> Hi Anuj,
> what does exactly happen? what part of the installation process ? If you are
> already in the ncurses interface, you can switch to another VT (Alt-F2 throught
> to F4 at least should work ), where far more detailed information about the
> installation process is shown. I think Alt-F2 should give you a console where
> you can issue some commands to see what's going on.
>
> Best,
> _________________________
> {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
>
> "I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for
> the sake of a useful cause." Dostoevsky
>
> I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet.
> Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been
> Warned.
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