From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 23:40:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sentinel.uaa.alaska.edu (webmail.uaa.alaska.edu [137.229.100.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9782A37B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:40:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from uaa.alaska.edu ([137.229.98.170]) by sentinel.uaa.alaska.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G8HC1M00.J5C for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:41:46 -0900 Message-ID: <3A8391D5.5060004@uaa.alaska.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 22:44:37 -0800 From: "JOHN MUELLER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: basics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear freebsd, I couldn't partition my drives so I got "Partition Magic" ( a software ) which is OK.My version of free bsd has purple lettering on 4 cdroms and says June 1999. Partition Magic does not list freebsd on the types of operating systems it knows about. What kind of partition should I make for free bsd ? What kind of FAT ? Does it need a "swap" extension like Linux ? I have a cautious streak that gets worse every time I install another operating system ( I have 5 now ). Thank you, but one last question... I got this HP Colorado tape drive for back up. Do you have any idea if: it looks for data already backed up and skips it, just adding on new data ? HP can't seem to figure that one out, and the drive didn't come with a manual; hmm, it did have a cd though. Anyway before I install need to know about the partition thing. After that I will read the man pages, etc. before I ask any more questions... Cheerio !!! asjwm2@uaa.alaska.edu ( computer science major ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message