Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:18:24 +0100 From: Roy Oestensen <royoest@alfanett.no> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD.org for the first time Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011230160704.00b3cef0@pop.alfanett.no>
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Greetings, I regretably do not have access to any news server from home. My ISP did have an agreement in the past, but this has apparently been cancelled. So if you have any suggestion of how to access one through the web, I would appreciate it. I have read through the installation documentation online, but still have a few concerns, as I am quite new to FreeBSD. I have only tried Windows and Linux. I understand that FreeBSD should be installed on a primary partition. Now DOS is not fond of having more than one active primary partition, so I am a little concerned how to go around the installation so as not to upset the rest of my setup. Currently my setup is as follows: Disk 1: 1st partition: Primary FAT16 partition (bootable) Rest of disk: Extended partition which is partitioned into some 4-5 logical partitions. I have 7 GB free space in the extended partition which I can make into a primary partition with PartitionMagic 7.0 Disk 2: 1st partition: Primary FAT32 partition used for Win98 Rest of disk: Extended partition. The first 2 logical partitions: Linux ext + linux swap Last logical partition: used for Win98 games. As I have never used FreeBSD, but would like to try it out, I'd like to use the free space without touching the rest of the setup. Currently I have set it up so that Win2k's boot loader is used to load the different OS's (Win2k on hda5, Win98 on hdc1, and Linux on hdc5 if I remember the Linux partition numbering scheme correctly. I had plans of having FreeBSD on hda6, but I will perhaps have to have it on hda2 instead? (If so, I'd make sure to edit boot.ini so that I still can load Win2k!) Any help would be appreciated, as I would prefer not to do anything wrong here. Roy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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