Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:05:29 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: "José" Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <20011122140529.39067.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3BFC104F.833D01BF@iceb.ufop.br>
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hi jose, i will see what i can help you with... no offense.. > I intend to install FreeBSD on my PC, which already > has some > operating systems installed: Red Hat Linux 7.2, > Mandrake Linux 8.1 > and Windows ME. It has two hard disks. It is using > the GRUB > boot manager. o...k... > > 1. Does FreeBSD must really be installed into a > primary disk partition? > Can not it be installed into a logical partition? It must be installed on a primary partition... yes.. > 2. Can the FreeBSD and Linux swap partition be > shared? I think it is possible... > 3. Can the installation be done from an existing > ext3 or ext2 > (second extended file system, from Linux), > existing filesystem? nope... > 4. After installation, all installed operating > systems will be > ready bootable from the FreeBSD boot manager > after installation? yep.. all Operating systems you have will be bootable, the following is a sample layout of the boot manager. F1. DOS F2. LINUX F2. LINUX F3. FREEBSD you can although rename the above to your needs... > 5. Can the current boot manager be kept and used to > boot also > FreeBSD? How? It can be done, please read the documentation which is called "using FreeBSD with Multiple Operating Systems", which can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html#articles > Note: Section 2.5.2 (Disk Organization) of the > handbook are not very > well written, since the use of the terms "partition" > and "slice" is > pretty confusing in the text. This is due to the > overloaded use > of "partition" . What it means in the simplest of terms is, a partition is the actual space you disect out of your hard-drive for FreeBSD or any other Operating System. A slice, is a way you can organise the inner layout of the partition you have dedicated to FreeBSD, for example: /dev/ad0s1 - FreeBSD. ===================================== /dev/ad0s1e - /usr /dev/ad0s1f - /var and so on... you can have up to 16 of these slices inside a FreeBSD partition. Still unclear... mail me... > Regards, > Romildo. > -- > Prof. José Romildo Malaquias > Departamento de Computação > http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade > Federal de Ouro Preto > romildo@iceb.ufop.br > Brasil > romildo@uber.com.br > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of > the message ===== regards, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> <http://geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; ---------------------------------------------------- Guys!... stay away from Einstein Junior! ---------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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