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Subject: Re: need info for freebsd installation on PC with LBA harddisk  
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On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Shen Da wrote:

>    I am a newbie to FreeBSD and Unix. Days before I got a FreeBSD CD-ROM
> from Walnut Creek and I am eager to install that on my computer. But my
> computer(with Award Bios v4.51PG)have only one harddisk that had been
> partitioned into four parts, for SCO Unix(320MB), MS-Dos(127MB),
> Extended(1.2GB, include a NTFS disk which reside a NT 3.51 server) and
> OS/2(300MB). Because my SCO unix is not installed successfully due to the
> fault of distribution disk, I intend to use the partition for SCO unix(which
> occupy the first 320MB of harddisk) to install FreeBSD.


OK, no problem.  Use FDISK to clear the space out, then install FreeBSD
into it.

>     My question is whether can I directly install FreeBSD with install.bat
> from CD-ROM under Dos into SCO unix partition? What kind of HD mode should I
> use(I select LBA mode to use Dos, NT server and OS/2 but select normal mode
> and modify partition table manually to install SCO unix)? 

You can make the boot floppy and boot that directly.  Leave the drive mode
on whatever it is, FreeBSD does not necessarily use it.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major