From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 10:29:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28028 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28018 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA25770; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:29:05 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id KAA16105; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:27:35 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: CharIesFox cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help? In-Reply-To: <2e321267.3552853e@aol.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 Fri, 8 May 1998, CharIesFox wrote: >excuse me i have window's 95 intalled and tryed to install FreeBSD 2.2.6 And >Stopded Becuase Even though i have WELL well over 600 meg's free your program >Only Detect's 3 Sector's on ethat has 6 Bytes (haha.. never ever gonna fit it >there) and another one Meg Sector' and then the Main 2000+ Meg Sector... But >if i install to the main sector with the 2000 i'm not sure if it will delete >my Files. Could u help or direct me to someone that can Please use proper capitalization and punctuation to get best results from this mailing list. Also, please do not cross post your mail. It is almost never appropriate to cross post messages in almost every forum on the net. FreeBSD probably found a few unused sectors at the very "end" of your disk that DOS was not using. You may have 600 meg free. Is that 600 meg in a seperate partition? You must have a free DOS partition to install FreeBSD. That partition must have sufficient space for FreeBSD. If you install to the "main 2000 MB sector" (partition is more accurate wording) you _WILL_ wipe out your win95 installation. The trick is to make a new partition without loosing your win95 install. Exercise care when partitioning. I recommend a complete backup! http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message