Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:24:04 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Marjan Bozinovski <marjanb@cpk.auc.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Separate partition for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010516162403.A60543@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <001801c0de08$40bc22b0$206ea8c0@MarjanW2K>; from marjanb@cpk.auc.dk on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:00:58PM %2B0200 References: <001801c0de08$40bc22b0$206ea8c0@MarjanW2K>
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:00:58PM +0200, Marjan Bozinovski wrote: > Hi, > > I am a future user (beginner) of FreeBSD, and I have already read all > about the installation instructions. But I miss some information. > However, I have a PC with already installed Windows 2000 on it. Also, > there are 2 partitions on it. So, my questions are: > > 1. What should I know about the installation of FreeBSD, concerning > the partitions? Or, more precisely, is the second existing partition > all I need to start off with the installation? One, unused, partition should be enough. Just make sure you don't have anyting on it that you might want to keep. Depending on the BIOS you might have to put FreeBSD's boot partition somewhere in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. > > 2. I will install FreeBSD from a CD. Do I need to make 2 floppy > diskettes (prior the installation) with the images of > floppies\kern.flp and floppies\mfsroot.flp, or the installation CD is > all I need? If your computer can boot from a CD the installation CD should be enough. > > The partition size is 10 GB, so I think, there will be no problems > with regard to the hard disk memory space. Also, I have 128 MB RAM. > Should be plenty. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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