Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 12:52:06 +0000 (GMT) From: James Bonnyman <jib@eee.eleceng.nottingham.ac.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD v2.0 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950118125131.4835B-100000@electric>
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Last night I had a major disk crash and am
considering this to be a good time to upgrade
from FreeBSD1.5.1 to version 2.0.
I have Three questions however,
1. When using the Disklabel screen the, it was
reported that dos was on part e and not h.
as outlined below
part start end blocks MB Type Action Mountpoint
a 0 0 0 0 unused
b 0 0 0 0 unused
c 82368 528191 445824 218 unused <Entire FreeBSD slice>
d 0 528191 528192 258 unused <Entire Disk>
e 48 82367 82320 40 MSDOS
f 0 0 0 0 unused
g 0 0 0 0 unused
h 0 0 0 0 unused
Total Size 445824 blocks 218MB
space allocated 0 blocks 0MB
I am install FreeBSD to a completly reformated hard
disk ( from BIOS, not DOS ), and had only actually
formatted the 40MB disk, dos at this point was not
on it. Is this bad, what if anything do I need to
do to get round this problem ( since it appears that
I should be putting /usr/local on 'e' )
2. Is it possible to install using NFS as before
from the minimum kernal ( I use the machine at
src.doc.ic.ac.uk )
3. I will be setting up another machine to act as
a CD-ROM blower for my department. I had decided
to do this (under V1.5.1) by having partitons as below
1. 20MB dos partiton for booting & Software
2. 700MB dos partion for files to be blown to
the CD using a CD-Writer
3. 300+MB for FreeBSD
I would then make (2) above pc-nfs exportable, such
that users within the department could mount it using
PC-NFS ( all our PC's have this ). Put the files on
the disk, and then reboot the machine under dos and
blow the files to the CD .
Is this in your opinion a good idea ( My main reason
for doing it this was is that although I know it is
possible to export DOS files systems under linux, I
HATE linux, and also happily run FreeBSD and have been
doing so for the last year ).
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