Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello FreeBSD Fans, > > I wanted to create a new system and was thinking about the following layout. Do you really mean that or to you mean put "root" which is '/' in its own partition? There is no reason to put just /boot in a separate partition. It's just a directory to help keep some

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-03 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Andrew, Andreas and Eric, Thanks for the replies. I am done for today ;-) (or so) I learned again that sometimes it is important to know how to search ;-). Oviously I followed the wrong hints in the first place. Thanks for the many links and tips. I am definitely save from now on. I will gi

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:16:02AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Thanks for the reply. I have now a better understanding whats possible with > FreeBSD. One question (last one) which I could not find an answer to in the > online manual is : > > How would you do a Dual or multi OS

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-03 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:48:30 +0200, Andrew Reitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dual booting FreeBSD along with other Operating Systems is definitely possible. And you're right, I couldn't find any reference to how this can be done in the Handbook either. :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-02 Thread Andrew Reitz
On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eric, Thanks for the reply. I have now a better understanding whats possible with FreeBSD. One question (last one) which I could not find an answer to in the online manual is : How would you do a Dual or multi OS boot machine f.e.

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-02 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Eric, Thanks for the reply. I have now a better understanding whats possible with FreeBSD. One question (last one) which I could not find an answer to in the online manual is : How would you do a Dual or multi OS boot machine f.e. with Windows on the first disk, first slice, first partitio

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:33:42AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello FreeBSD Fans, > > I wanted to create a new system and was thinking about the following layout. > > Size | Mountpoint | Device name | File system > 100M /boot /dev/ad2s1a UFS2+S > 1024MB --- /dev/ad2s1b SWAP > 15GB / /dev/a

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-02 Thread valentin_nils
Hello, Because it instinctively (without the MBR boot manager) looks for /boot/kernel/kernel in the first partition of the first active slice on the first drive. But I have choosen to install the Boot loader. ;-o ... 1) I wouldnt mind on which partition "/boot" or "/" sits or what its n

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello FreeBSD Fans, > > I wanted to create a new system and was thinking about the following layout. > > Size | Mountpoint | Device name | File system > 100M /boot /dev/ad2s1a UFS2+S > 1024MB --- /dev/ad2s1b SWAP > 15GB / /dev/ad2s1c UFS2 >

Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

2006-04-02 Thread valentin_nils
Hello FreeBSD Fans, I wanted to create a new system and was thinking about the following layout. Size | Mountpoint | Device name | File system 100M /boot /dev/ad2s1a UFS2+S 1024MB --- /dev/ad2s1b SWAP 15GB / /dev/ad2s1c UFS2 I want to put /boot on its own partition, but somehow I dont have a lot