Partioning for a FBSD-64 install

[Rob]

Bob Willcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:55:15AM -0700, Rob wrote:
> 
>>1.  Is it my imagination or is a 64 bit install going to take twice the 
>>space of a regular 32 bit one?
> 
> 
> Not in my experience. Two systems I have here suggest that although the
> 64-bit binaries are larger, they are no where near double in size.
> 
> bob at sidious:pg /usr/bin> uname -a
> FreeBSD sidious.austin.ibm.com 5.3-BETA5 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #9: Mon Sep 20 13:15:31 CDT 2004     bob at sidious.austin.ibm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SIDIOUS  i386
> bob at sidious:pg /usr/bin> du
> 21418   .
> 
> bob at qui-gon:p2 /usr/bin> uname -a
> FreeBSD qui-gon.immure.com 5.3-BETA5 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #16: Fri Sep 24 14:31:21 CDT 2004     bob at qui-gon.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUI-GON  amd64
> bob at qui-gon:p2 /usr/bin> du 
> 26972   .
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
>>2.  I have seperate SCSI drives, one for XP-64 and one for FreeBSD-64. 
>>In the past I have used grub to boot between OS's.  If #1 is true 
>>   then grub will no longer be on  a floppy and will have to become 
>>bootable CD unless useable in emulation mode.  Is there a grub port for 64?
> 
> 
> Well, I know nothing about grub...  :-)
> 
> Bob
> 
Thank you.  That info is what I needed for install.  I can always tweek 
the bios to boot into the right drive.  Rob.