Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:59:38 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'Robert3085@aol.com'" <Robert3085@aol.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FIPS QUESTIONS....... Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105ABE@site2s1>
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Robert, first and foremost, you have to always backup your data before you attempt doing anything that alters that disk in the way tha FIPS does. For that matter you should before installing any OS, anyway. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert3085@aol.com [SMTP:Robert3085@aol.com] > Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:30 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FIPS QUESTIONS....... > > Hello, > > I want to install a small footprint of FreeBSD on an intel machine. I'm > doing > this to learn about UNIX. I downloaded the BIN, MANPAGES, FLOPPIES and the > > required TOOLS files. I believe that i'm ready to start the install > process > and have a few concerns about running fips and they are: > > 1) does fips create a second PRIMARY DOS partition? I want to run FreeBSD > from this partition, do I use the fdisk utility supplied for dos or is the > a > fdisk program for UNIX? both are mentioned in the doc for fips. > No. What FIPS does is resize the existing partition(s) to make free space on the drive to add another partition (similar to something like partition magic, but w/o the bells and whistles). It would probably be in your best interest to defragment your DOS partition(s) before running FIPS. Also, FreeBSD is not DOS, and does not use DOS partitions. The installation will take you through creating FreeBSD partitions. > 2) the doc states that i need an ERRORS.TXT file for fips, If so where can > i > find it @ FreeBSD.org. It was not in the tools directory with the > executable. > I couldn't find it on the site anywhere, except in this ZIP file. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dist/fips20.zip I can't imaging an ERRORS.TXT being required, but I may be wrong on this account. > 3) do I need to run a boot manager to actively boot into FeeBSD. I ask > this > question yesterday and some replied that the install process of FreeBSD > will > install one for you? > Yes. and yes. You will need to run a boot manager to switch between operating systems. And the installation will give you an option to do so. > Any help with fips be great. I'm just a little nervous to run it and not > understand a little more about it. > Did you read through http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html? This is a must for a 1st time installation. > Bob Brozewicz > MVS Systems Programmer > Hope this helps, -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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