Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable. -- I sense much NT in you.

Re: RAID1 vs RAID5 [ was Re: 1 processor vs. 2]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Also, RAID-5 performance degrades horribly if a drive is down, whereas RAID-1 > does fine... Using the algorithm you indicate below, RAID-5 performance would not degrade on the loss of a drive, it's start out that badly. > A five-disk RAID-5 array has to

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: > The parity calculations for RAID-5 are a lot of work and that work scales > linearly with the number of drives in the array. The longer you make the > array, the worse the performance becomes for small writes in particular. How did you come to this concl

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 6:16 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who > have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might > be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating > whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux d

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

On Thursday, 4 March 2004 at 23:48:05 -0900, Joe Pokupec wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User M

GUI-related questions.

Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three

SIngle User Mode Help

Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User Mode... I can't find any info on Single User Mode to help me: - I use mou

Re:

Chris wrote: > > hi dear mr or mrs > > i use freebsd 5.0 . whenever i want boot my > > computer(when kernel want boot) i see this messages: > > unable to load kernel! > > > > cant load 'kernel' > > please guide me > > regads > > No offense - but without proper information, the list can't determin

New Users Learning FreeBSD

I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux distro like mandrake or debian. I will be there most of t

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