From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 15:31:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16862 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16781 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA26869; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:30:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:30:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Jeff cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! I'm a total Newbie! In-Reply-To: <359170A9.F2430FA8@soltec.net> 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, 24 Jun 1998, Jeff wrote: > Hello, I'd like to install FreeBSD on my current PC. I have a Pentium > Pro 200, 64 M RAM, etc. I have about 7 GB HDD, with 6 of it divided up > on one hard drive. Basically, I have three available partitions that > are logical to the primary DOS partition. (I think that's how I did > it.) It may be a primary, with the extended partition housing the > logicals. At any rate, do I need to do anything special to one of these > partitions prior to installation of FreeBSD on it? FreeBSD cannot be installed in Logical DOS partitions. It uses a partition of it's own type. You will need to rearrange your drive's partitions prior to doing this. (And you should learn some terminology before hand as well. It's unclear to me just exactly how many physical drives you have.) If that last 1G is completely free (Not a partition of any type) then you can install FreeBSD without having to change a thing. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message