From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 11:18:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA09539 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA09534 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA02235; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:18:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Onofrio Schiavone cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <199711131755.MAA16558@mail.colba.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Onofrio Schiavone wrote: > Hi! To Whom it my concern, > > I need help in installing Free BSD on my computer. I have a pentium > with a 2.4G hard drive. The principle operating system running is Win95. > I've partioned the hard drive in the following manner, C: 300M, D: 200M, > E: 250M, F: 250M, G: 250M, H: 250M and I: 925M. Win95 has been installed > on C:. All the partions have been MS-DOS formated. I would like to > install the Free BSD operating system on the I: drive. > > Does the I: drive need to be MS-DOS formated? No; in fact it must be completely deallocated so that it is unpartitioned space. FreeBSD uses it's own slice type. > I bought the CD-ROM version of FreeBSD 2.2.2 . I have CD-ROM drive > installed, so I intend to install it from the CD-ROM drive. > Furthermore, I would like to able to switch from UNIX to Win95 and vice > versa with no problems. You should be OK, as long as your BIOS has got around the 1024 cylinder limit. > Please forward me your instructions by e-mail, it would be much > appreciated. Please also be as articulate as possible and do not miss > any steps, I might get lost. Tell it to like I'm a 2 year old. Can't go that far, but I can direct you to http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html and INSTALL.TXT on the CDROM for starters. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major