I made a little guide about why and when to make seperate partitions
here:
http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/partitions.html
This is starting from the assumption that as few partitions as
possible is the way to go, it lists reasons why you would want
additional ones.
Martin
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> I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I
> plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have
> 512MB RAM.
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> According to this page:
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> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
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> I should us
I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily
reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data...
Thats a good idea. I will digest what eveveryone said, and post what I
did. Currently I'm installing Win2k, since this will be a dual-boot
machine. FreeBSD is
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:40:01PM -0500, wrangled wrote:
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> I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I
> plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have
> 512MB RAM.
>
> According to this page:
>
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885
wrangled sat at his 'puter and typed on 12/5/2005 0:10:
I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I
plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have
512MB RAM.
According to this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handboo
I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I
plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have
512MB RAM.
According to this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
I should use:
/ = 100MB
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