Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:37:02 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Kevin_Weiss/AUS/Lotus@lotus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setup/partitioning of FreeBSD on 8.4 GB drive Message-ID: <369F609E.6A252938@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <852566FA.005398D9.00@mta2.lotus.com>
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Hello, TRhe setup described in The Book is only for older PCs which cannot boot from a partition after the 1024th cylinder. You can just keep your partitions "as is" (1G for M$, 1G to install FreeBSD). After installing FreBSD I would suggest that you combine the remaining three partitions into just one to store all of your data (FreeBSD slice mounted on /home, for example). Welcome aboard TfH PS : the G200 must be supported in the latest release of Xfree86 (check it out on www.xfree86.org) Kevin_Weiss/AUS/Lotus@lotus.com wrote: > > I recently bought the "Complete FreeBSD", and while looking through the > book, I noticed a section (pg. 36) that suggests giving 400 MB toMS-DOS, > then 504 MB to FreeBSD, and then the rest for extended MS-DOS partitions. > > My hard drive is as so, for now :-), 4 partitions@ ~2GB each, running only > Win95.. > > Now I have also run FIPS once before (basically being a little to anxious about > getting FreeBSD up and running), and now my primary (i.e. C: drive) is > almost divided in half (no data loss luckily). > > Now, do have to redo ALL my extended partitions just to get this 504MB > for FreeBSD (again, pg. 36 in book), and can I run FIPS again to redo this > primary partition? > > any input anyone? thanx! > > Kevin Weiss > kevin_weiss@lotus.com (or kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu > > PS - Before I install...does anyone know of any conflicts with Matrox > Millenium G200 8MB video card. > > PSS - Whoever responds to this, I just want you to know that I am very grateful > :-) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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