From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 11:28:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27536 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA21978; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:27:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White 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? Yes, delete them and shrink the corresponding extended partition. FreeBSD requires it's own slice type and will not install to any other FS type. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message