From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 15 07:59:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02959 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:59:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02954 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id QAA24323; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:56:28 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA09516; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:55:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA04920; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:25:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23493; Fri, 15 Jan 99 16:32:34 +0100 Message-Id: <369F609E.6A252938@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:37:02 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin_Weiss/AUS/Lotus@lotus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setup/partitioning of FreeBSD on 8.4 GB drive References: <852566FA.005398D9.00@mta2.lotus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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