From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 19:17:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891D616A4A6 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from whaynes53@verizon.net) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B9343D6A for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:17:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from whaynes53@verizon.net) Received: from homefd908b2fef ([71.240.17.85]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J1B003OXUOCRKO8@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:12:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:12:13 -0400 From: "Walt Haynes" To: Message-id: <005c01c696f8$f10acaf0$2e01a8c0@homefd908b2fef> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.9 on a Windows/XP Professional system. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:17:19 -0000 Good afternoon. I have a Compaq SR1810NX with a 100GB hard drive split into four equal partitions of 23GB. Two are initialized (one with Windows/XP (C) and the other with a quick format (G)); the file systems are NTFS. The other two partitions (D and E) are uninitialized. I have FreeBSD 4.9 on three CD'S that I'd like to install into one of the uninitialized partitions. Can you tell me what I need to do for preinstallation and what do I need to know to direct my installation to one of the uninitialized partitions? I'm going to give the entire 23GB to FreeBSD. Thank you in advance for your assistance. I'm very anxious to learn UNIX system administration and all of the related tasks (shell programming, security administration, etc.). Walt Haynes