From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 12:28: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3129037BECF for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04205; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:28:00 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id MAA03810; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:27:57 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:27:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Bill Renneker Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation question (from CD) In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000710133753.00afb820@mail.itctel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not certain from the documentation whether I need to remove Windows > first (the disk is not partitioned), or whether perhaps installing FreeBSD > would remove Windows. If I need to remove Windows, can you tell me how? > Also, does DOS need to stay--and if not, how do I uninstall DOS? If you're 100% sure you don't need either, just install FreeBSD. It is a full operating system, as is Dos and Windows. If you need Dos/Windows, then follow the instructions for a Dual boot system. > I'm using an external Backpack CD drive connected to the parallel port that > I plan to use for the CD installation. Do you anticipate any problems with > this? I could be wrong with 4.0 but these drives are not supported. For that matter, no parallel port CDRom drive is supported. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message