Hi all,
first of, in case a similar question has already been asked, I apologize for repeating it; I didn't find the info I'm looking for in previous posts.
I own a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi2528 laptop with a dual hdd raid mirror configuration. My intention is to use no raid at all and reclaim the 500 GB of space in total (too many video files; backup will be devoted to an external drive). I want to take that opportunity to have 4 OSes: the dreadful and dog slow Vista that came with the laptop two years ago, Haiku, FreeBSD and maybe a flavor of Linux (probably Ubuntu as I'm already tired of reading pages and pages of documentation).
What I envision is this:
- first HDD: OSes and apps and secondary data space
- second HDD: swaps, encrypted partition and main data space
I have a few questions though:
1- Is 10 GB a usable size in case FreeBSD becomes my main OS? Between the 45 GB that my current Vista install eats and the 2 GB the guys from Haiku recommend, I wonder where FreeBSD stands. The documentation I've been reading (for instance, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-pre.html and its French version) doesn't seem up to date because of the disk sizes mentioned in it; these sizes are nowhere near what is commonly available these days (see section 2.1).
2- I know that oblivious-to-the-rest-of-the-world Windows has to be installed first but is there a specific order which I should install FreeBSD with respect to the other OSes?
Thanks.
first of, in case a similar question has already been asked, I apologize for repeating it; I didn't find the info I'm looking for in previous posts.
I own a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi2528 laptop with a dual hdd raid mirror configuration. My intention is to use no raid at all and reclaim the 500 GB of space in total (too many video files; backup will be devoted to an external drive). I want to take that opportunity to have 4 OSes: the dreadful and dog slow Vista that came with the laptop two years ago, Haiku, FreeBSD and maybe a flavor of Linux (probably Ubuntu as I'm already tired of reading pages and pages of documentation).
What I envision is this:
- first HDD: OSes and apps and secondary data space
- second HDD: swaps, encrypted partition and main data space
I have a few questions though:
1- Is 10 GB a usable size in case FreeBSD becomes my main OS? Between the 45 GB that my current Vista install eats and the 2 GB the guys from Haiku recommend, I wonder where FreeBSD stands. The documentation I've been reading (for instance, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-pre.html and its French version) doesn't seem up to date because of the disk sizes mentioned in it; these sizes are nowhere near what is commonly available these days (see section 2.1).
2- I know that oblivious-to-the-rest-of-the-world Windows has to be installed first but is there a specific order which I should install FreeBSD with respect to the other OSes?
Thanks.