Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ross Kendall Axe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>>At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >>> >>> ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start

Re: /boot on a separate partition

Ross Kendall Axe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > > >> > >> ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition > >> at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall > >> is easy enou

Re: /boot on a separate partition

On 2005-07-20 21:21, Ross Kendall Axe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never used it myself, but NetBSD gets mentioned as a suitable OS > > for a router. I stick with FreeBSD just for compatibility across all my > > machines, but if you're interested in trying stuff out you might want to > > se

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> >> ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition >> at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall >> is easy enough, but does

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Johnson wrote: > > On a 1 GB drive you aren't going to have room to do much learning no matter > how little you waste in /. Maybe I should just ship you a bigger hard drive. > > I'm pretty sure I have a 3 or 6 GB drive around that I have no u

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a >> BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS >> bugs/quirks? There's no shortage of those. > > We

Re: /boot on a separate partition

Ross Kendall Axe wrote: I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS bugs/quirks? There's no shortage of those. Well, until someone proves otherwise, I don't believe in them anymore. I believe

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > > Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea > > of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a > > separate partition. > > Not sure about that...I alw

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Being pragmatic, the problems you are facing are because you have such a > tiny disk in an ancient PC. This puts you in a very small minority of > FreeBSD users. True. > A separate /boot is new to 5.X and I doubt it was done >

RE: /boot on a separate partition

Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > > >... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition > >at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall > >is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to > >diddle t

Re: /boot on a separate partition

At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to diddle the bootloader to accept this configurati

Re: /boot on a separate partition

Ross Kendall Axe wrote: That's what I'm going for now. 100MB in / and the rest of the disk given to /usr and swap. Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a separate partition. Being pragmatic, the problems you are

Re: /boot on a separate partition

At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel both want to be in the /boot directory

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a. I'd love to be proved wrong :-)

Re: /boot on a separate partition

At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out >> on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS c

Re: /boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out >> on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to >> read past 504MB, so I want to p

/boot on a separate partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive.

Re: /boot on a separate partition

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive.