From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Dec 1 00:26:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01193 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:26:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01166; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id AAA34814; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:26:13 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id AAA17504; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:26:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:25:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: mr_chichi cc: FreeBSD-questions , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <000201be1cfd$51da09a0$08612599@oemcomputer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ moved to -questions ] On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, mr_chichi wrote: >I have just down loaded the boot info for freeBSD on my zip drive. I have a >blank partition, about 4 gigs reserved for an operating system. My question >is, do I have to have an operating system on the partition to run FreeBSD >and boot it up, or is it a stand alone operating system able to be loaded >onto the partition. If I am able to load it, how would I do so...? FreeBSD can be stand alone if you desire. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message