Re: Goals for the year
From: Ed Hurst (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/17/04
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:40:20 -0500
Synchrodude wrote:
> Got a question for ya. K, if I resize my fat32 partition and create a blank
> partition from the freed up space on my HD, which already has these
> partitions on it:
>
> dev/hda4 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs
> ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat
> users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
> /dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0
>
> Do you know how good the setup is and if it will see the blank partition for
> my installation? the thing I don't want to do is mess up my suse partitions
Use any utility that works for you, and leave at least 2GB of unused
space (3-4GB is better). FreeBSD *should* recognize it as such and offer
to use it. It can use the same swap as Linux, because the format is
identical. No harm comes from that.
> or my windows partitions. I don't really care if the install does mess up
> but only if it just messes up the FreeBSD stuff. My last experimentation
> trying to put Mandrake as a tri boot just installed over my suse
> installation. I was quite upset about that cause on top of that the
> Mandrake installation wouldn't let me put Suse back on until I wiped my
> entire HD and had to reinstall everything. But I guess that is what I get
> cause I said to use existing Linux partitions :) Also I was reading that
> max partitions for FreeBSD is 8 so I don't see why this would pose any
Well, that's not exactly true, but it's not a bad size to work with.
> problems. Can you let me know how you set yours up and what kind of hard
> ware are you running. I am guessing I will have the same issues with my
> hard ware as I did with RH 8 it didn't recognize my sound (creative labs
> audigy gamer) and my video card (nvidia Geforce FX 5700 Ultra). With Suse I
> have no problems with any of my hard ware. including a USB Cannon N670U
> scanner. Thanks for the help.
I had an Audigy at one time, and only the upcoming 5.2 is likely to
recognize those. The video card will come up using the old XFree86 "nv"
driver, which as you know is inferior. However, you can learn to use the
ports system and upgrade to the Nvidia provided drivers and it will do
just about all the work for you. You have to run the install of the
driver outside X, anyway. I'd recommend you wait until FreeBSD 5.2 does
come out in the next month or so. Printers are simply a matter of CUPS.
It's a bear to setup in FreeBSD, because you have to use the CUPS
interface itself. OTOH, if you have a good CUPS driver for that Cannon,
you can still use the old Apsfilter, and it will adopt the driver.
Athlon 1.1, 512MB RAM, now an ATI Radeon 9000 (tried a GeForce 3 and it
worked okay, but I don't like Nvidia; I'm not a gamer). KDS 19" VS-190
and Epson CS 860 (now dead). That was about 3 months ago. It used a 40GB
Maxtor all to itself, and came up with its own partition plan. Worked fine.
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