From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 19:34:39 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 2EF6416A4A6 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:34:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anrays@gmail.com) Received: from tor.farlep.net (tor.farlep.net [213.130.1.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DDD43D46 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:34:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anrays@gmail.com) Received: from santinel.home.ua (nas-6-149.dialup.farlep.net [213.130.9.150]) by tor.farlep.net with ESMTP id k5NJYR5d012884; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:34:32 +0300 Received: from anray by santinel.home.ua with local (Exim 4.62; FreeBSD) id 1FtrPc-00047T-MO; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:33:52 +0300 To: "Walt Haynes" References: <005c01c696f8$f10acaf0$2e01a8c0@homefd908b2fef> From: Andrey Slusar Mail-Followup-To: "Walt Haynes" , Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:33:52 +0300 In-Reply-To: <005c01c696f8$f10acaf0$2e01a8c0@homefd908b2fef> (Walt Haynes's message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:12:13 -0400") Message-ID: <86d5czpsyn.fsf@santinel.home.ua> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.5-b27 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.8 X-SMTP-Vilter-Virus-Backend: clamd X-SMTP-Vilter-Status: clean X-SMTP-Vilter-clamd-Virus-Status: clean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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 19:34:39 -0000 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:12:13 -0400, Walt Haynes wrote: > 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. FreeBSD ports officialy is unsupported for 4.x and 4.9 is not latest 4.x release. When you installed new system, now RELENG_6_1 is recommended.