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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Daniel <danielwu@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [HELP]Installation
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Daniel wrote:

> I am a novice who is trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 release on my PC.
> I've installed
> MS Windows98 in one FAT32 partition. Following is a list of my
> hardwares:
> 
> CPU                     Pentium II-400 MHz
> RAM                    128 MB
> Mainboard            ASUS PII-B
> Harddisk:              IBM IDE 7200 rpm 10.1 GB
> SCSI controller:    Adaptec AHA-2940 UW PCI

OK so far.  IDE drive just a holdover or afraid to unlock the potential of
your system? :-)

> Display Card:        Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

Lucky you SuSE just released an X server for this.

> Sound Card:         Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI

Not supported.

> CDROM:              TEAC 32X SCSI
> Network Card:       DLink DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

Eh... I *THINK* this is DEC-based but I'm not sure...

> Questions:

> 1. I am just wondering if these configurations supported by FreeBSD.
> If not, what am I gonna do to install FreeBSD properly and correctly?

Looks OK so far.

> 2. When I first tried to install FreeBSD, after detecting hardware
> configurations, the
>     installation program showed that "Syscon" and "PS/2 Mouse" ports
> conflict to
>     each other. What to do to get rid of this confliction? (I don't want
> to oprate X
>     windows without a mouse.)

You don't, it's normal.

> 3. In my IBM 10.1 GB harddisk, I fdisked two partitions, each takes 50%
> of the
>     harddisk space. The "C:" partition already has Win98 installed, and
> I want to have
>     FreeBSD installed in the "D:" partition. However, when it came to
> the stage to create
>     a FreeBSD slice, I found the maximum storage space all FreeBSD
> slices take up is
>     only a little more than 3 GB! This means I have to lose another 2 GB
> unused! What
>     happened?

FreeBSD requires it's own slice type.  Delete drive D and use
PartitionMagic to shrink down that extended partition.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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