From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:33:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05551 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05443 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:32:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28642; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:32:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: ROY GREENE cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980225162004.0066ec88@pop.mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, ROY GREENE wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I just purchased the 4 CD set of free bsd for my computer. I was reading the > installation instructions, and it looks as though I need to have MSDOS 6.x > installed in my computer before I can install freebsd. The problem is, I > have WindowsNT installed, and I didn't see anything in the book about a > windowsnt install. Eh? No, DOS is not required. A DOS boot floppy with FDISK on it is a recommended backup step though. You can install straight from the CDs. Of course, you must have free partition space; FreeBSD requires it's own slice and cannot install to NTFS or FAT or into any other partition except it's own type. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message