Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:19:24 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Hieu Nguyen <HTNGUYE4@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows platform Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002120211380.3363-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <000801bf74fe$10c4a060$ec129cd1@dannynguyen>
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You don't need any particular operating system installed. But one way or another you need to be able to make two installation boot disks--download the files and use either a unix program (dd) or a dos program (fdimage) to write the files as images to floppy disks. This doesn't have to be done on the machine on which you install, though. Having a small dos partition may help the FreeBSD installation process figure out the correct disk geometry; it may be useful to have dos in a partition to use the floppies that come with some hardware (e.g., ethernet cards) to configure these cards. If you want to dual boot, some utilities (dos fdisk, fips, and the payware Partition Magic and System Commander) are useful in setting up the disk, perhaps reducing the size of a dos/win partition or moving them. So it can be useful to have dos around, to use some of the programs it runs. Annelise On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Hieu Nguyen wrote: > please, let me know what window platform do i have to have first before installin' BSD > is it have to be Unix, Linux, or Win9x ??? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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