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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Nam Q Nguyen <nqnguyen@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu>
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Subject: Re: Question about Installation???
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Nam Q Nguyen wrote:

> Dear Sir, Madam,
> 	I have just purchased the Free BSD packages and started installing.  I
> got a secondary hard drive which has a lot of disk
> space.  As the installation asked me about partitioning, labeling,
> and mounting I feel very confused about those question though I have
> some basic kill in partitioning with DOS.  In both Linux and Dos
> we usually refer to Meg Bytes, or head sectors.  I am still not very
> familiar with the idea of partitioning by blocks.  If it is possible,
> please give me some examples what I would type in for partitioning disk
> drive.  Also, I got some error mesg like "can't find swap partition, or
> the root partition."  Please give me some helps for that.
> 						Sincerely yours,
> 						Andy Nam Nguyen
> 
You can use megabytes in the partition and label editors. Just append "m" 
to the number to indicate that it is in megabytes rather than blocks. You 
may also opt for the "auto" option in the label editor (at least as 
something to begin with). Did you get the package with 'The Complete 
FreeBSD' from WC? If so, read it. It's a great help for installation. 
Also read carefuly the doc's on the web site.

Nadav