From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 18 06:44:54 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA02045 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 06:44:54 -0800 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk [128.86.8.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA01953 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 06:43:11 -0800 Via: uk.ac.nottingham.computer-science; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 12:53:07 +0000 Received: from electric.eee.nott.ac.uk by pat.Cs.Nott.AC.UK id aa00859; 18 Jan 95 12:51 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 12:52:06 +0000 (GMT) From: James Bonnyman X-Sender: jib@electric To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD v2.0 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-Sender: jib@eee.eleceng.nottingham.ac.uk Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 d 0 528191 528192 258 unused 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 ).