Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:36:31 -0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: romildo@uber.com.br Subject: Questions regarding FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <3BFC104F.833D01BF@iceb.ufop.br>
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Hello. Being a seasoned Linux user, the time to experiment with FreeBSD has just arrived to me. After reading chapter 2 (Installing FreeBSD) of the handbook, some points are not yet clear to me. I intend to install FreeBSD on my PC, which already has some operating systems installed: Red Hat Linux 7.2, Mandrake Linux 8.1 and Windows ME. It has two hard disks. It is using the GRUB boot manager. I would apreciate clarifications on the following points: 1. Does FreeBSD must really be installed into a primary disk partition? Can not it be installed into a logical partition? 2. Can the FreeBSD and Linux swap partition be shared? 3. Can the installation be done from an existing ext3 or ext2 (second extended file system, from Linux), existing filesystem? 4. After installation, all installed operating systems will be ready bootable from the FreeBSD boot manager after installation? 5. Can the current boot manager be kept and used to boot also FreeBSD? How? Note: Section 2.5.2 (Disk Organization) of the handbook are not very well written, since the use of the terms "partition" and "slice" is pretty confusing in the text. This is due to the overloaded use of "partition" . Regards, Romildo. -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto romildo@iceb.ufop.br Brasil romildo@uber.com.br To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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