From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 23:07:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA09757 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (h-admissible.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09746 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA00915; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:07:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:07:01 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Barry Soben cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive Partitioning In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961027032802.00682e2c@fix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Barry Soben wrote: > Hi! Hello. > Using partition magic, I partitioned my 1 gig hard drive 600 megs for MSDOS > and 400 megs for FreeBSD. Presently the 400 megs is "free space", it does > not have any sort of partition format. In reading "Installing and Running > FreeBSD", I couldn't quite figure out whether I'm best off just running FIPS > or using Partition Magic to set those 400 megs to some sort of file system.. > (Not sure which one!) None of the above. :) Just start the install from the floppy and when you get to the partition editor highlight that 400 meg space and choose `C' to create a partition there. Then `Q' to continue on your way and all the heavy lifting will be done for you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------