On 2005-07-20 21:21, Ross Kendall Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never used it myself, but NetBSD gets mentioned as a suitable OS
for a router. I stick with FreeBSD just for compatibility across all my
machines, but if you're interested in trying stuff out you might want to
see what it
Ross Kendall Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall
is easy enough, but does
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Ross Kendall Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
at the start of the drive. Setting
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Being pragmatic, the problems you are facing are because you have such a
tiny disk in an ancient PC. This puts you in a very small minority of
FreeBSD users.
True.
A separate /boot is new to 5.X and I doubt it was done
to
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Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea
of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a
separate partition.
Not sure about that...I always
Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a
BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS
bugs/quirks? There's no shortage of those.
Well, until someone proves otherwise, I don't believe in them anymore.
I believe
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a
BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS
bugs/quirks? There's no shortage of those.
Well, until
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Bob Johnson wrote:
On a 1 GB drive you aren't going to have room to do much learning no matter
how little you waste in /. Maybe I should just ship you a bigger hard drive.
I'm pretty sure I have a 3 or 6 GB drive around that I have no use
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall
is easy enough, but does anyone
Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
That's what I'm going for now. 100MB in / and the rest of the disk
given to /usr and swap. Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea
of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a
separate partition.
Being pragmatic, the problems you are
At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall
is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to
diddle the bootloader to accept this
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall
is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to
diddle the
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out
on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to
read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB
partition at the start of the drive.
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Luke Dean wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out
on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to
read past 504MB, so I want to place the
At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
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Luke Dean wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out
on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't
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On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel
both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a. I'd love to be
proved wrong
At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
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On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel
both want to be in the /boot directory
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