From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 09:37:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA11061 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from midtown.net (isaac.midtown.net [205.162.100.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11051 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:37:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602151737.JAA11051@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from mail.midtown.net by midtown.net with SMTP (IPAD 0.9.7) id 2185200 ; Thu, 15 Feb 96 09:11:53 PDT X-Mailer: Post Road Mailer (Green Edition Ver 1.03a) From: Larry Watkins To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:37:18 PST Reply-To: Larry Watkins Subject: Question about configuration Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello -- I'd like to enter Unixland -- I'm a beginner. I have a question about what I can do to run FreeBSD. I have a Pentium 90, SCSI 1GB HD, SCSI CD-ROM, 16MB RAM, tape backup, multimedia machine. It's dual boot, partitioned 350 DOS FAT and 650 OS/2 HPFS. I've thought of taking it in to a dealer and asking to have the hard drive reformatted to 300 FAT, 300 HPFS, and 400 for Unix but that's a lot of work and expense getting everything back in running condition. I've thought a better solution might be to add another hard drive for Unix and installing FreeBSD on it. Then I expect I'd be able to boot up as Unix from a floppy, or as DOS or OS/2 as I have in the past by booting from C:. Would this work or is there a better solution? What would be your recommended size of new hard drive? Will the hardware I currently have, other than the disk drive, work? What more should I know before pursuing this further? Is this a good idea? You can send your replies to lwatkins@midtown.net. Thanks a lot. Larry - Sacramento