From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 20:24:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24096 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bbs.x-net.net (www2.x-net.net [206.74.59.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA24090 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.74.59.212] by x-net.net id bb510.wrk; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 23:26:36 EST Message-ID: <33FA8C21.2FDD@x-net.net> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 23:18:09 -0700 From: Rolland Alba Reply-To: vaxen@x-net.net Organization: Earth Force One X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hi! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Folks; Well I am about to boot up FreeBSD. All is set but i am just a little timid. I am running DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1x on an American Megatrends 1.6G Quantum Fireball. Partitioned into 3 partitions @ 360M each or so. My DOS and Windoze arte both on C:\ Along with most of my Net Candy .E is pretty full with Apps and stuff but I have an extra 250M or so on D:\ I have made my boot disks and Downloaded into D:\FreeBSD\bin all the bin files from the FTP release 2.2.2 and the Manpages D:\FreeBSD\manpages\ all and I have all of the tools @ D:\FreeBSD\tools Including setup.exe :Ha! So I would like to boot from D:\ and make FreeBSD live there on D:\FreeBSD! I have Optimized all So should I run setup from this dir or should I boot Run fips first then load these files onto the slice or just what is the best way to proceed at this point? I am using DOSNIX PC_DCL and MSH which give me a really powerful UNIX like environment but of course I am thirsty for the real thing. I am using Diamond Telecommander and am using The 80486 Deep Green Motherboard with Cyrix 5 X 86 @ 100MHz: Its a 32bit highperformance system board. Floppy is 1.44M and I can do a lot from bios like wondering, too, should I enable or disable LBA and well I have a whole bunch of questions but I'll save them for after first boot...Also I was wondering if I need to disable my 386 enhanced and just what to do about Memory Management but that will come after boot too...And I am reading the gotchas daily thanks to all you great people at freebsd and UGU...Thanks to Ms Anderson especially and her cohorts... Hope this p[osts and that it is a clear enough rendering of whats troubling me before boot...any help in this matter would be greatly aprreciated. Ill be moving to LA on the 31st of August so It would be nice to move into my new home with FreeBSD up on board and kicking...so please help if you can...thanks a million and I really Love this list! VaxenVar http://VaxenVar.free.zone/vaxen/navy.htm