Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:53:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: hamet <hamet@pacific.net.sg>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partitioning of HDD for freebsd Message-ID: <19981229185301.R32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <368890E4.5A45900@pacific.net.sg>; from hamet on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 04:20:52PM %2B0800 References: <368890E4.5A45900@pacific.net.sg>
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 16:20:52 +0800, hamet wrote: > Hi there was wondering if this is the right address for help > anyway I was trying to install my freebsd2.2.6 > i have 2 Harddisk. a primary master(4gig) which run win98 and a > secondary master(8gig). my secondary master had been partitioned by > fdisk. so its like > there's 4 partitions there. > Now i would like to install freebsd on my secondary master. How do i go > about doing it?Do i need to repartition again on my secondary master? You need a slice (what you call a partition) on your disk for FreeBSD. If you already have four, and you want to keep them, you're out of luck. Otherwise use FreeBSD's fdisk program to do it (probably via the Disk Label Editor during installation). See the handbook or ``The Complete FreeBSD'' for more details. Note that the first 50 MB or so of the slice you create must be addressable by the BIOS with no outside help, otherwise you won't be able to boot FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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