From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 5:17:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6442837B405 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from twin.scraemondaemon.org ([24.49.117.213]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GHHRHV01.0XD; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:17:55 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by twin.scraemondaemon.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f73CEqr00582; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:14:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:13:32 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: DAlSault@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does install slice or partition or whatever? Or do I have to do it first? Message-ID: <20010803081332.A295@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from DAlSault@aol.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:44:31AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As it was put forth by DAlSault@aol.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:44:31AM -0400... > I'm an absolute newbie. I've got my floppies here with the images but I'm > afraid to start the install process because I have no idea whether or not I > should have run some kind of disk slicing or partitioning program first. Does > the install destroy my windows98 os and apps, or does it automatically slice > my disk and place itself in the unused memory portion? If your Windows slice takes up your whole drive, than you will need to run FIPS to shrink the size of this slice. Make sure the FreeBSD root partition is before the 1024 cylinder so you can boot it. If Windows is not taking up the whole disk and you can make about a 100M root partition before the 1024 cylinder, then go ahead with the install. An easy way to find out if Windows takes up the whole disk is run fdisk in Windows and do option 4 to view partition information. Make a backup of your Windows data before you start, just in case something bad happens. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message