From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 7:24:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A719337B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01878 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:24:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA28918 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:24:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 60559 invoked by uid 1001); 16 May 2001 14:24:04 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:24:04 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Marjan Bozinovski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Separate partition for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010516162403.A60543@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Marjan Bozinovski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001801c0de08$40bc22b0$206ea8c0@MarjanW2K> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001801c0de08$40bc22b0$206ea8c0@MarjanW2K>; from marjanb@cpk.auc.dk on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:00:58PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message