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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question regarding installation of FreeBSD Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:50:56 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4vfb90$8t@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <32112A37.1B91@unisql.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thomas Schenk (tschenk@unisql.com) wrote: : I am considering installing FreeBSD on my home system, but need some : information first. I have three hard drives in my system as follows: : Drive 1 (C Drive) 540 Meg IDE : Drive 2 (D Drive) 116 Meg IDE : Drive 3 (E Drive) 329 Meg SCSI : I would like to use the following partitioning scheme, but am not sure : that it will work. : Drive 1: Drive 2: Drive 3: : 400 Meg DOS Primary 100 Meg FreeBSD 313 Meg Linux : 50 Meg Linux (root fs) 16 Meg FreeBSD Swap 16 Meg Linux Swap : 50 Meg FreeBSD (root fs) Don't expect the first partition on drive 1 to "work" :( Swap is small as J"org pointed out. I'd "share" the swap. There's no reason why both partitions can't be both Linux & FreeBSD swap ! In FreeBSD: swapon /dev/rsd1s2c swapon /dev/rsd2s2c I don't know for sure it it's ok to mount the c (FreeBSD) partition. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....