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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:35:17 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        vetri mudaliar <vmudaliar@usa.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About installation
Message-ID:  <20001001083517.C27736@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001001150319.17387.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net>; from vmudaliar@usa.net on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:03:19AM -0600
References:  <20001001150319.17387.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net>

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* vetri mudaliar <vmudaliar@usa.net> [001001 08:03] wrote:
> Dear sir,
>          I am a very new user of FreeBSD OS.Basically I am from windows
> background but i want to learn FreeBSD OS.
> 
>      I have downloaded 4.1/bin directory and is located in folder of
> windows98.I want to know how much min free space is required for FreeBSD and
> whether it can be dual boot with windows98.How can I install from there
> (windows directory),is it possible to install from there ?.

FreeBSD requires a partition of about 400 megabytes, however if you're
serious about running it you'll want to go with at least a gigabyte or
two.

The files you downloaded need to be in C:\FreeBSD, you'll also want
to download the manpages as well.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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