Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:14:30 -0500 From: Richard Linane <Typh0on@concentric.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help? Message-ID: <332487C6.3687@pop3.concentric.net> References: <c=US%a=_%p=BellInd%l=CDCEXCHANGE-970310214952Z-6327@cdcexchange.bellind.com> <33248699.9E6@pop3.concentric.net>
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Richard Linane wrote: > > RGireyev@bellind.com wrote: > > > > Richard I am a bit confused as to what are you trying > > to do. Are you trying to install FreeBSD onto a > > different drive than where Win95 lives or the same? > > > > Just a couple of weeks or so ago I have successfully > > installed FreeBSD 2.1.7 onto my machine. I have > > a 5x86 120Mhz processor a single 850 MB HD and 16M > > or RAM. > > > > First I used fips to create a second DOS partition > > thereby keeping 500M for Win95 and allocating 300M > > to my FreeBSD. > > > > Then I rebooted with FreeBSD floppy in and in the > > installation utility deleted the just created DOS > > partition and replaced it with the FreeBSD one. > > I made the mistake of not having the FreeBSD > > in my root (or C:) directory at first but once > > I fixed that everything proceeded nicely. > > > > I never had to delete Win95 > > just compress the hard drive. > > Yes. > > I had bee trying to install FreeBSD onto a second hard drive > > >>trying to be neat I guess :O) << with no luck... > > I had a missunderstood the installation process referring to the > directions written by Jay Richmond I had found at Wallnut Creeks > Website. > > http://www.in.net/~jayrich/doc/multios3.html#3 > > I thought that the installation of freeBSD had been on the second hard > drive > (referring to section 3. A Typical Installation) > > After reading this page again it seems that he was installing W95, Linux > and FreeBSD on the same (the 1st) hard disk with the Boot Easy Boot > Manager. > Duhhh! :O) > > It looks like I've caused myself alot of unneeded frustration. :O) > > Had I read twice and Installed once. I'd probaly be exploreing shell > scripts as we speek. > > I appriciate your reply, > > Sincerly, > Rich Linane > > Typh0on@concentric.net
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