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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:26:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        sgh@sns.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970121122506.25512O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <m0vlnZU-000Q2bC@mail.sns.com>

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On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 sgh@jack.sns.com wrote:

> this may be a dumb one but ya got me all paranoid....
> I have a 631mb master & a 1220mb master--CD slave to latter
>  on the first I've got vfat16||   over here I wanna put bsd
> or watever it is (w'95good)||
> first 450mb for w'95 last   ||
> 181mb linux v2.0 root part||
>  whew,so, if'n I install her (BSD) from CD to 1221 master(2nd)
> is there any or much chance of screwing up first master... I have
> a office suite there and am too stubborn for floppy bkup.
> also,curious,is Diamond stealth64 supported now??

If you do your partitioning right, you shouldn't break anything.  

FreeBSD does require unallocated partition space, so you can't install on
a FAT partition.  You can install FROM one if your CD doesn't appear to
work (which it should).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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