From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 21:46:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA08075 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:46:59 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA08062 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:46:56 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA01724; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:35:24 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507250505.OAA01724@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: installation To: fadorno@ix.netcom.com (Fred Adorno) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:35:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507250305.UAA19180@ix6.ix.netcom.com> from "Fred Adorno" at Jul 24, 95 08:05:58 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1448 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Fred Adorno stands accused of saying: > > I have a 540mb drive which is not partitioned. I am using the whole > drive under DOS. I do have 150mb disk space available. How do I Ok; the first two actually contradict each other. Your disk is partitioned, it just has one partition on it. > proceed with installation of FreeBSD 2.0.5? I am new to Unix and I Firstly; make a backup. Preferably a full one, but if you don't have the resources, make sure you're not going to lost anything if you get it wrong. Then grab a tool called fips; you'll find it in the 2.0-RELEASE tree under tools/dos-tools. Get the distribution archive as well (under the same directory and read the documentation.) Use something like Norton's Speed Disk, or the DOS 6 Defrag tool to fully compress your drive. You need to do this to move all of the data to one end of the disk so that you can stick a new partition in. Run the fips tool and make yourself a partition about 100M or so in size. Then follow the 2.0.5 installation instructions & install onto the new partition. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[