Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:32:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: ROY GREENE <rmg421@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225203138.28338z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980225162004.0066ec88@pop.mindspring.com>
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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
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