Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:48:00 -0400 From: Dave Ason <dgason@mindspring.com> To: fmaruca@Omnia.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WIN '98 and BSD Message-ID: <35E1DF8E.EE2F75C2@mindspring.com>
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Hi there,
About 5 months ago, I installed FreeBSD on a system that already had
'98. It wasn't the easiest install of UNIX that I've ever done, but it
is not any harder than most of the Linux distributions out there and I
have become a big fan of FreeBSD. Here are some suggestions:
1) Pickup a copy of "The Complete FreeBSD" (ISBN: 1-57176-216-1). You
can purchase this from http://www.freebsd.org by selecting "Getting
FreeBSD" and following the links.
2)When the time comes to install, FreeBSD will need its own partition.
You might be lucky enough to use "fips", a disk partition tool that will
take the largest contiguous section of a hard disk and create a new
partition for you. This only gave me a 100MB partition so I hard to
"fdisk" my hard disk and re-install '98.
3)If you have to use fdisk, INSTALL WIN98 FIRST. If you install FreeBSD
first, '98 might overwrite your boot partition.
4)Make sure you know all of the IRQ's and addresses for all of your
hardware before you start. If you plan on installing X-Windows, make
sure you know the technical specs on your video card and monitor (things
like model, amount of video memory, different screen resolutions,
refresh rate). Configuring X-Windows was the hardest part of the install
for me.
5)Before you start, have some sort of bootable floppy that contains the
drivers for your CD-ROM. I created a Win98 bootable floppy and put my
CD-ROM drivers on it. This will be a lifesaver if any part of the
installation goes catastrophically wrong. I chose Win98 becuase I was
new to FreeBSD. Feel free to use any operating system you'd like to
create a bootable floppy. For future bootable floppies, I am going to
attempt to try "PicoBSD".
Hope this helps!
Dave Ason
dgason@mindspring.com
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