Installation queries
I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation queries
Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation queries
On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, I have always found disk caddies to be a much better solution than dual-boot. It guarantees no interference. I learned the hard way some years ago with an 'accident' with dd on a dual-boot disk... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation queries
At 09:32 a.m. 24/04/2010, you wrote: On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, I have always found disk caddies to be a much better solution than dual-boot. It guarantees no interference. I learned the hard way some years ago with an 'accident' with dd on a dual-boot disk... I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. - Extra disk(s) and install there the differnet os I need (FreeBSD and some Linux distros). - As mentioned have different small disk with real installations and change according to needs. - Change my slow machine and have a big one with a) have the windows needed (for some clients that have that, I am sorry) and under it run VMWARE or similar and have all the installations that I need. b) Have a big mac and do the same with virtualpc or similar (not sure of the name). Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation queries
Hi, Jorge Biquez wrote: I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. - Extra disk(s) and install there the differnet os I need (FreeBSD and some Linux distros). - As mentioned have different small disk with real installations and change according to needs. IMHO, this is a clumsy way to avoid writing over an existing installed operating system. But, you know what they say about opinions. - Change my slow machine and have a big one with a) have the windows needed (for some clients that have that, I am sorry) and under it run VMWARE or similar and have all the installations that I need. b) Have a big mac and do the same with virtualpc or similar (not sure of the name). VirtualBox? Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? FWIW, I run VirtualBox on all of my FreeBSD machines and my Mac for similar purposes. It is much more convenient than carrying around extra disks or obscure disk partitioning. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation queries
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Jorge Biquez wrote: I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. [snip] VirtualBox? YES! Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? FWIW, I run VirtualBox on all of my FreeBSD machines and my Mac for similar purposes. It is much more convenient than carrying around extra disks or obscure disk partitioning. Me too. I have an AMD quad core and 8GB RAM. Virtualbox is one of the most painless ways to do this. Whichever OS you install in a VM it won't run as fast as it can if not a VM, but on the larger horsepower box it is very nearly unnoticeable. It's close enough that I'm quite satisfied. In fact it is what I do if I need Office for anything, fire up a Windows VM. I originally started doing this with a Pentium D 940 and 2GB RAM and it made the box a little sluggish. The move up to the higher horsepower box eliminated that. Virtualbox and higher horsepower gets my vote over continually monkeying around with altering slice/partitioning schemes. The more often you mess with that the higher the chance that you sooner or later make a little 'uh oh' and lose gobs of time wiping your drive and starting over. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
