From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 15:37:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0F616A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:37:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55D9C43D48 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:37:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2005 15:37:35 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) [62.245.232.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 20 Jun 2005 17:37:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:37:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <42B6DFA1.3030203@zebra.net> In-Reply-To: <42B6DFA1.3030203@zebra.net> X-Birthday: Oct. 6th 1972 X-CelPhone: +49 (0) 173 9967781 X-Tel: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Country: Germany X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-OS: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3079770.pLgKkTDkRk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506201737.30879@harrymail> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Benjamin Sher Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD -- urgent hard drive issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:37:38 -0000 --nextPart3079770.pLgKkTDkRk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Montag, 20. Juni 2005 17:24 schrieb Benjamin Sher: > Dear friends: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4. The install CD that I created in Nero > is fine. I also > printed out all the info I could on my system. I have two primary hard > drives, each 40G > in capacity: The first one has Windows XP on it. The second disk is > completely blank. I > would like to install FreeBSD on this second disk and to use it > entirely. When I booted > up to the Install screen I saw the option of choosing ado or ad1. I did > read about this > earlier on the FreeBSD home page. I chose ad1and then saw the Fdisk > screen. I don't > need to Fdisk anything. I just want to use the second primary hard > drive. I am very If you choose ad1 then the partition table of ad0 (where your windows=20 resides) won't be touched. You could install FreeBSD without having a=20 MBR/Partition table but for compatibility reasons FreeBSD adopted the=20 microsoft partitions, so if you use sysinstall you have to create one=20 partition (slice would be the correct FreeBSD term) with id 165 and inside= =20 that slice the different labels for your mount points. > much afraid that I might do something wrong and wipe out my Windows > installation. So, Well, since you're doing regulary backups this won't be a matter, right? ;) =2DHarry > I chickened out and decided to ask for further guidance from the list. > > Could you please advise me on what precisely I should do at this > critical moment? > > Thank you so much. > > Please note my email address: > > Benjamin Sher > delphi123@zebra.net > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --nextPart3079770.pLgKkTDkRk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCtuK6Bylq0S4AzzwRAlAgAJ981KXhtci7lLg/DyynK0JxsyXhgACcDCZ6 wsXwJ0LUAuxX/q83Xx5VPDg= =VxSF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3079770.pLgKkTDkRk--