/boot like linux!

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Thu Mar 3 21:19:04 PST 2005


Jesse Guardiani writes:

> I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user.
> In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions:
>
> /boot
> swap
> /
>
> In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more:
>
> /
> swap
> /usr
> /var
> /tmp

You don't _have_ to create these partitions.  They are just the
suggested configuration (and the default if you have the system create
partitions for you).  All you really need is a swap partition and a root
partition (/).

-- 
Anthony




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