Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:53:44 -0800 From: "John W. Rasins" <jrasins@mindspring.com> To: "tuart itchell" <stuart@golden.bnc.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unix Message-ID: <2.2.16.19961106185344.7f1f92ae@pop.mindspring.com>
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At 11:54 AM 11/6/96 +1000, you wrote: >Hi > Just got a copy of the 2 set CD. >I wish to know can I set it up a my main hhard drive with Windows95 on >it or will it be best to get a second hard drive to set it up. >I'm just playing around with it, but I will be setting up a full >Internet server for my BBS. > >Thanks >Stuart Mitchell > Yes, you can, but you need to have a portion of the hard drive unpartioned so that you may setup a partition for FreeBSD. I see reference to a program/utility(?) called fips that I presume will allow you to repartition your hard drive without the usual back-it-all up, delete all partitions, and then repartition steps, but I haven't used it so I'll let someone else verify that process. You should have at least 100mb (per Doug I believe) allocated for FreeBSD. If your current hard drive doesn't have that much available to be partitioned off, then getting a second drive becomes a necessity. One thing I am not sure of, is whether FreeBSD requires a partition off of the main HD for booting purposes. When I used UnixWare, it required at least an 80mb partition on the boot HD. If FreeBSD does, you may still have some work to do on your current HD even if you buy a second one. John
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