From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 2 11:55:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9BF37B416 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (lille-2-a7-4-174.dial.proxad.net [62.147.4.174]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id CCD7D5F7AF for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:55:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:52:18 +0100 From: messmate To: freebsd-questions-en Subject: First install Message-Id: <20020202205218.63d5298d.messmate@free.fr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello all, I'm a complete newbie to FreeBSD, as a Linux user. I downloaded the floppy install packs as kern and mfsroot to simulate my first install. After reading (and downloaded) the 'book' and all I found about FreeBSD doc, 1. I understood that only 1 slice (named partition in dos or linux) can be handled in FBSD. In this case when a new fresh install is needed all the mount-points will formatted (or not ??) so there is no way to maintain for ex. a /home or someting as /usr/local ?? 2. FBSD can't boot AFTER the 1024st cylinder ? (That's my case=2d hd) Lilo can do it ! 3. There is no mention about a boot floppy ? (wan't use the MBR for secure) 4. I don't see all my drives on my first simulation, like the cdrom, zip, soundcard/modem = isapnp and my mouse won't work. (a simpel microsoft serial on com1) no other config of it won't work also. 5. Downloading all iso-images or doing an install over ftp is for me to expensive. (Tel. cost) Is there a way to buy a 4.5 version powerpack ? I'm leaving in France. No way to find it, nor in France nor in the USA. (over the internet) 6. My actual partitions : hda = windooz and 2 linux partitions. (6.4G) hdb = linux partions for a half (20G) 7. My hardware : Pentium 233 MMX 1st HD Quantum Fireball ATA disk drive 2d HD WDC WD200BB-00CVB0 ATA disk drive IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI floppy drive CD-ROM AKO ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive floppy Soundcard creative SB AWE64 isa PNP Soundblaster audio driver Modem Gazel isa PNP passive ISDN R647/R648 (hisax) Any comment would be very appreciated. mess-mate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message