From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 19:45:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0434416A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50D243D69 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:45:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beastie@thirdfloor.fsworld.co.uk) Received: from user-718.l1.c3.dsl.pol.co.uk ([81.79.2.206] helo=thirdfloor.fsworld.co.uk) by cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AYH0Y-0002cw-L6 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:45:26 +0000 Message-ID: <3FE668D3.1000708@thirdfloor.fsworld.co.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:45:23 +0000 From: SB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 05:03:49 -0800 Subject: Help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:45:38 -0000 Hi there, I'm trying to get onto FreeBSD. I'm currently using Win98SE. I have a 300mhz Pentium II with 160mb ram and a 6.5gb hdd. I'd like to split up some of it for FreeBSD. I've never partitioned an hdd before. I'm so lost and confused. I don't know where to start. How do I go about partitioning my hdd please? Many thanks, Steven B.