Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:48:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren <r.m.b.lindgren@usit.uio.no> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation woes Message-ID: <199706050848.KAA01593@tag.uio.no>
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hi, I've got a Pc with two hard disks; both of which have two partitions. I'd like to install FreeBSD on the second partition of the second disk. it's empty, at least as viewed from Win95. howevever, when I choose the wd2 disk I am presented with something I don't understand. I see _four_ items on wd2, one small unused, on large DOS partition, one large extended partition, and then one small unused partition. I believe the empty parition is probably the large extended one (Win95 can only access 2MB at a time on my machine, hence one 2MB DOS partition and one 1MB extended). if I tell the installation program to install to the extended partition, I'm warned that it's in use. for all I know, I've misunderstood something, and don't want to delete anything for fear that I'll not be able to recover it. how can I make absolutely sure that I'll install onto the empty F: partition of my second drive, and not delete anything on any of the other C:,D:,E: partitions?
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