From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 10:45:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28738 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:45:49 -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 KAA28722 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07981; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:44:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Stephen Moore cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation In-Reply-To: <01BDFB67.0B0F5780.STEVEM@ASCEND-SYSTEMS.COM> 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 Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Stephen Moore wrote: > I saw a copy of the FreeBSD handbook in the bookstore and was interested at > once. Before I spend the money purchase the book (with the four CD's) > would like to know just a couple of things about the install process. I > currently have OS/2 and Windows 98 on my computer with IBM's boot manager > doing the OS selection. If I want to add this to the configuration, will > it work if I use Partition It (or something like that) to create another > partition, then set that partition as installable and bootup from a floppy > into the new C: partition. I don't want the hassle of having to try to > restore my system from backup because I screwed it up. If you split your existing partitions, don't make a new partition, just leave the space unallocated. The FreeBSD installer will create the partition. The OS/2 boot manager has no qualms about booting FreeBSD slices; once FreeBSD is installed go into OS/2 FDISK and add a label for the FreeBSD slice. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message