From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 14: 0:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569D614D11 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 14:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22621; Tue, 25 May 1999 14:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:00:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ian Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: one quick pre-install question In-Reply-To: <374AEBA9.E8BCC579@technotic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ian wrote: > i'm expecting FBSD 3.1 today, but i have a small problem. i curently > have a SuSE Linux install and a very small win95 partition on a total of > 9 gigs (6.4 all linux) (3.2G 700 win rest linux) Please describe this more clearly. I don't understand the relationship in the second 3.2GB. Is that in an extended partition, or separate partitions? > how can i install FBSD on this without scrapping the others? the win > doesn't really matter, just use it for the digital camera. what is > the best way to do this? If the Windows partition is a primary partition, simply delete it and install FreeBSD in the space it used to occupy. FreeBSD requires its own slice. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message