Adding to Sthitaprajna's reply. Earlier, FreeBSD had a restriction that it needs one primary partition. I think its like that now also. When selecting partition during FBSD installlation, it displays the primary partitions only. So, if you want windows ( <= Me ), you may need atleast two primary partitions.
The 1024 cylinders' restriction was there only for old bios. Newer systems shouldn't have that problem. I am using lilo of mdk which is on second last partition out of the 15 partitions of an 80 GB hdd. Also, before installing FreeBSD, you will have to use the supported hardware list and all. It has weird problems with some hardware. ( like - installation wont go if your Sony cd-rom is secondary master, switching to primary slave solves this :-) ) Jemshad On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:16:38 +0530, "Sthitaprajna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:53:57 +0200, "Siva shanmugam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > What would be a good optimized way to partition a 40 GB IDE harddisk for > > desktop use. > > Vague > > > > > 1) Windows XP (to run windows based applications) > > 2) RH (use daily) > > 3) Freebsd (to experiment) > > 4) Someother linux distro (to experiment). > > > > Some where I read creating one primary and one extended partition. > > The primary would contain the NTFS and the other filesystem are in the > > extended. > > Important data would be stored on NTFS partition so that in case of > > harddisk crash, the datas can still be recovered. > > Some suggestions and comments would be very helpful. > > > I'd go for 2 Win32 partitions of 8G and 10G, the first one to install > XP/crap, and the 10GB partition to store shared stuff, like maybe mp3s, > so that you can listen to them from whichever OS you want. You might have > to make this partition fat32 because of issues with NTFS support in *nix. > Look at the option of installing XP on FAT32. > > For Redhat, /boot - 20M, / - 400M, /tmp - 300M, /var - 1G, /usr - 4G, > /usr/local - 2G. and You can choose whatever you want for /home. > > For your second Linux distro you want to experiment with, you could > create a single partition to install, or share your swap, /boot and /home > partitions from the redhat install. You could use more partitions from > redhat, but might be risky, so best bet is to keep a 5G partition to > install and play around with a new distro, by using the same swap > partition. > > FreeBSD is nice. You could still share the swap partition, or create a > whole partitioning scheme for it. The best bet would be to read teh > handbook, it has decent sugestions for Linux/FreeBSD existence. And i > seem to remember reading a howtos for this as well. > > You planning to install QNX or Solaris on this disk as well? > > > Is it required that the boot files of a operating system should be > > within 1024 cylinders? > > No. However, you might want to use a OS selector like XOSL. It looks neat > and works well, if nothing else. Otherwise, LILO or whichever bootloader > you choose to use will be fine. > > -- > cheers > -- > Sthitaprajna > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help -- Jemshad @(-_-)@ "I know Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words" -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
