From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 12:39:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242A114D6A for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990427194138.BMPP6531620.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:41:38 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Nightshifter Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:39:41 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Stuck lost and a newbie to freebsd! Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3725DE5E.C4B06BAE@ckt.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990427194138.BMPP6531620.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Apr 99, at 10:57, Nightshifter wrote: > Using partition magic I created another partition > on my first HD, > leaving me with 2 partitions and some extended > jewel > the windows95 partition is 1.5 gigs > the extended is stuck inbetween with 400 megs > and the partition I created is at the end with > 400megs Well, you've got the first bit done! Congrats. But just for your information, you didn't need Partition Magic. There is a tool with FreeBSD called fips.exe. But it doesn't matter. You got the job done. > What do I do from here to install freebsd? As someone said, the primary reference is the handbook. You can see how I used the handbook at http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/dual.htm -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message