From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 6:49:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BF437B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02577 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:49:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11438 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G0VQDY00.7HP; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <39C0D758.398A0B98@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:49:12 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micke Josefsson Cc: Sujit Manolikar , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help me References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 01-Jan-70 Sujit Manolikar wrote: > > dear sir > > > > i want to download and run your FreeBSD Unix. But i m rather confused about > > the installation. and partitioning the drive. plz help me. > > > > my hardware: > > > > Hard Disk 4.3 GB with only one large drive named C:\ and is not partitioned. > > > > i m currently running dos and windows on my machine. can i run the > > > > dos windows and FreeBSD simultaneously. and will it be as easy as pressing F8 > > key and selecting the OS to load. i m afraid that after installing the FreeBSD > > i will loose my Windows and Dos. plz let me know. > > Thanks for your interest, Sujit. > > If your drive is one large C: that is 4.3G then your filesystem is probably > FAT32. I know that the 'fips' program can handle FAT16 but I am not sure if it > also manages FAT32. Someone else perhaps can chip in on this? There is also > presizer.exe which should be able to do this. fips can handle FAT32. > Anyway, you will have to repartition your drive. I suggest you make 1G available > as a primary partition somehow. It is probably important that this partition > megins within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. If you already use the LBA > setting in your BIOS then this should not be a problem. Also, FreeBSD versions earlier than 4.1 must have the bootable drive below the 1024 cylinder (this has been coming up a lot recently). -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message