Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 09:53:55 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'zorklord@xtreme.net.au'" <zorklord@xtreme.net.au> Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5BBB9EF8@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Zorklord wrote: > Thanks for your answers so far, I just want to clarify > something. I have 1 HDD at 4.3Gig split into two FAT16 > partitions at 2.15Gig each. Winblows is on the first > partition along with all my programs/games, the second > partition is completely empty, but I dont want to deadicate > the entire second partition to FreeBSD, is it possible to use > FIPS to create a smaller partition from the second partition, > say 300Meg? If so, there any FAQ's or instructions for FIPS > anywhere? If the second partition is completely empty, just delete it and then create a smaller FAT partition for windows to use, and leave the space you want for FreeBSD unpartitioned as this time. When you come to running the FreeBSD install program, you can then create a single FreeBSD partition in the unused space on the disk (using the FreeBSD equivalent of DOS fdisk). This next bit confused me at first, so here goes: FreeBSD needs more than one disk 'slice'. e.g one slice for the root file system, one for swap space, and maybe a few more for /usr and /var. You dont need to create a separate partition for each of these! FreeBSD will 'slice' the single partition you created up into these separate bits (using the disk label editor). Note that Linux needs actual separate partitions, hence my initial confusion. Depending on what you want to do, 500Mb total should be ample for a FreeBSD install with X installed too. i.e make your second FAT partition 1.65Gb. By the way, if you've got these large FAT partitions, and are running Win98, why are they FAT16 and not FAT32? Win98 comes with a converter to change FAT16 into FAT32. This worked well in my experience. Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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