On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +0000, RW wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote:
> > The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall.
> > Every options I have tries sees the "NTFS" as ad0s1.
> >
> > Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive
> > to give me more than three slices? This is where the
> > handbook gets muddy.
> >
> > Can anybody 'splain this better??
>
> FreeBSD is not Linux.
>
> Linux uses the same partitioning as Windows, 4 primary partitions, or 3
> primaries and an extended partition.
>
> FreeBSD has its own type of partitioning scheme which you could put directly
> onto the disk, but this is known as "dangerously-dedicated mode" since it
> isn't compatible with other non-bsd OSs and might cause problems with some
> BIOSes.
>
> Most people will install FreeBSD in what's known as a slice, this wraps a
> group of native BSD partitions inside a normal PC primary partition. You only
> need one slice for a FreeBSD installation.
>
>
> > Which sections should I print out and go in a corner to read?
>
> The one called "Installing FreeBSD"
If memory servers, the slices I created were
ad0s2 /
ad0s3 SWAP
ad0s4 /usr
I tagged ad0s2 to be bootable; selected everything to be
installed and okay the create script. /usr had trouble
with newfs because of a bad superblock in 0s4. My guess
is that the difficulty stems from a foul-up from the
disk labeling.
I've been installing BSD since 4.1 at Cal and FreeBSD
since 2.0.5; I'm familiar with the standard protocols.
This is my first go at trying to dual-boot such
different systems.
gary
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