From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 8 16:32:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe14.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0BF037BD17 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjaze@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 20165 invoked by uid 65534); 8 Jun 2000 23:32:09 -0000 Message-ID: <20000608233209.20164.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [24.147.23.92] From: "Paul Johnston" To: Subject: holes in install docs Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 19:31:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hola FreeBSD'ers, I'm much interested in trying out FreeBSD, but can't find some pretty basic information in the online installation guide at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html. These are all things one should know _before_ starting an installation of any new OS. (Or for that matter, before sending $40 off to the FreeBSD mall to buy an OS that might not work on one's system). Namely: 1) Can I install FreeBSD in an extended partition, or does it need to boot from a primary partition? 2) What boot managers work with FreeBSD? Currently I'm multi-booting with PowerQuest's BootMagic program that's included with PartitionMagic, but other possibilities on my system are LILO or the WinNT boot manager. Do any of those work with FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD include its own boot manager? 3) Which video cards work with FreeBSD? (There are no video cards listed in the Supported Hardware!) Is there a version of XFree86 for FreeBSD? Well, back to the Web to try to find some answers.... --Paul ------------------------ Paul Johnston, Ph.D. UNIX System Administrator Office for Information Systems Harvard University Library Paul_Johnston@Harvard.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message