Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:57:37 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@sns.com> To: redwolf3@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Installation Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970419175130.00842710@mail.sns.com>
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At 04:03 PM 4/19/97 -0700, Red Wolfe wrote: >I want to install Freebsd on my system. I have a P166 which I will be >upgrading to K6 233 MHZ w/MMX within the month. I need to know, Can I >have it simply boot to a different drive rather than needing to >partition my C drive. I currently have two drives, a 2.1 Gig C drive, >and a 4 Gig D/E drive that have been divided into two with fdisk. Is it >possible to not harm Windows95/dos 6.22/ windows3.1? I have System >commander but not a lot of money. I need something that is either >preferably shareware or a way to install it to one of the 2 partitioned >sections of my 4 gigger. I have hardly anything on those two partitions >so I would not have a problem, but the information on my C drive is far >to valuable to just have "written over". Any help you could give me >would be great, I really want to try unix and see if it's for me and any >help would definately be appreciated. > Nice to know you found where to get help, Steve. One hint: try reading the FAQ, and Handbook, and the text files at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE. There are some text files there (install, readme, relnotes) that explain a lot of stuff you need to know. --Ludwig Pummer ----------------------------------------------------------------- ludwigp@sns.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org http://www.sns.com/~ludwigp <--^-- Updated 04/18/97 PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page
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