From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 22 2:49:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.singnet.com.sg (smtp4.singnet.com.sg [165.21.101.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF4537B662 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 02:49:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from theebh@magix.com.sg) Received: from pc38 (ad202.166.38.149.magix.com.sg [202.166.38.149]) by smtp4.singnet.com.sg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA65415 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:48:32 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from theebh@magix.com.sg) From: "Boon Hoo" To: Subject: How to install FreeBSD with Win98 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:46:49 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have read the FreeBSD Handbook and done some searching in the mailing list archives, but I still could not find the solution to my problem. Hope you guys could help me out here. I plan to install FreeBSD on my PC. I have only a single IDE harddisk (10GB in size) which is divided into 1 primary partition (C:) and 4 secondary partitions, all 2GB each. 4 of the partitions are used for Win98, i.e. FAT32 and the last one is used for Linux. My plan is to install FreeBSD over the last partition, thus overwriting Linux. Is this possible? I read from the FAQ that the root partition must reside in < 1024 cyls. PFDISK shows that logically, my HDD has 1232 cyls, but physically 1024 cyls - which is the correct one? When i reach the fdisk screen during installation, it shows me only these options: 1. unused space (for mbr?) 2. ad0s1 FAT 3. ad0s2 Extended 4. Unused space ("leftover" space from my linux installation -very little) It seems that i can't access the individual logical partitions to select, which was what i was able to do using disk druid(when i installed linux). How should i proceed from here? Frankly speaking, if there's any partitioning program like Disk Druid in FreeBSD to simplify installation for newbies, it would be excellent. Btw, is it possible to boot FreeBSD from diskette? Or does FBSDBOOT.exe works the same way as loadlin for linux? Thanks in advance, Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message