From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 15:44:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe18.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D3F37B401 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:44:29 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [198.77.59.47] From: "Brian Black" To: Subject: Installing newbe Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:36:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0028_01C07CC6.904E6700" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jan 2001 23:44:29.0672 (UTC) FILETIME=[9B0DF680:01C07CF1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C07CC6.904E6700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I had question I want to install freebsd 4.0 on my computer so I = purchased Partition Magic 5.0. Now my question is I currently have a C: = drive which is my hard drive a D: drive which is a system save and an E: = drive which is my cd rom drive the total hard drive space I have is = 15gb and so far it is divided up something like 4gb for the D:drive and = the remainder in the C: drive. I took C:down by 4gb and created a Linux = and a Linux swap, I had no problems doing this and it shows up as a = Linux partition on the Partition Magic main screen, but when I look at = my hard drive thru fdisk the Linux space I created for the Unix OS is = under the Extended Partition. Is this correctly done. if so where = should I go from here, should I install any files for running the Unix = OS in the windows partition and if not what is my problem, and is there = any info on doing this in a little easier terms than the 800 page manual = that comes with the OS. Any response greatly appreciated. =20 Brian ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C07CC6.904E6700 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I had question I want = to install=20 freebsd 4.0 on my computer so I purchased Partition Magic 5.0. Now = my=20 question is I currently have a C: drive which is my hard drive a D: = drive which=20 is a system save and an E: drive which is my cd rom drive the = total hard=20 drive space I have is 15gb and so far it is divided up something like = 4gb for=20 the D:drive and the remainder in the C: drive. I took C:down by 4gb and = created=20 a Linux and a Linux swap, I had no problems doing this and it shows up = as a=20 Linux partition on the Partition Magic main screen, but when I look at = my hard=20 drive thru fdisk the Linux space I created for the Unix OS is under the = Extended=20 Partition. Is this correctly done. if so where should I go = from=20 here, should I install any files for running the Unix OS in the = windows=20 partition and if not what is my problem, and is there any info on = doing=20 this in a little easier terms than the 800 page manual that comes with = the=20 OS.

Any response greatly=20 appreciated.
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