Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:49:07 -0600 From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> To: "Wanda" <uglywanda@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About FreeBSD Operating System Message-ID: <005601c2338e$848645c0$2afececd@TCOOPER> References: <OE20ELFU5oot8KMb5CI00004596@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I had the same problem, I started with Red Hat, then went to another version then FreeBSD. I found it the most resourceful and easiest to install. I have installed different scenarios when installing FreeBSD, both on primary and secondary and both easy to do. If you downloaded the ISO image make sure you burn it to a CD so you can see the FILE STRUCTURE. I made this mistake and cost me dearly. If you can boot from your CD, check BIOS to do this, you are in paradise. Stick the bootable CD into the CD rom and reboot. If not download the bootable diskets, 2 of them. Just follow the instructions. It took me 2 full days to get the process right - I made the mistake of not reading the documentation. Here's the good new's. Once you know what you are doing it only takes 20 minutes. And it's super easy. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html If your second harddrive is all ready formatted, it's probably in dos. You don't want this. You are going to have to use the label editor(look it up in the hand book), similar to fdisk to partition it correctly. If you have a partition you want to use all ready, use the label editor to delete that partition and reparation again using the FreeBSD label editor to create the Slice, again read the hand book for newbies, it tells you how to do it step by step. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Wanda To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: About FreeBSD Operating System To whom it may concern, I am writing to ask for help about installing the FreeBSD in my computer. I have a DELL Optiplex GX 115, X86 Computer with Windows XP installed on the master drive 40 gigs. It has 512 Ram, 800 mhz, a slave drive 15 gigs which I want to install another operating system on for programming purposes. My question is, will the FreeBSD run on my slave drive, which is already partitioned and ready for installation. I am so frustrated. I have read so much on different sites including redhatlinux etc., and I just want to download something that will work with mine. I tried the phatlinux, and it said it wasn't compatible with my X86, which it referred to as an older version. :::laughs:::: Sigh. Can you help me? Please? Thank You, Wanda Williams [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had the same problem, I started with Red Hat, then went to another version then FreeBSD. I found it the most resourceful and easiest to install. I have installed different scenarios when installing FreeBSD, both on primary and secondary and both easy to do.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you downloaded the ISO image make sure you burn it to a CD so you can see the FILE STRUCTURE. I made this mistake and cost me dearly. If you can boot from your CD, check BIOS to do this, you are in paradise. Stick the bootable CD into the CD rom and reboot. If not download the bootable diskets, 2 of them. Just follow the instructions. It took me 2 full days to get the process right - I made the mistake of not reading the documentation. Here's the good new's. Once you know what you are doing it only takes 20 minutes. And it's super easy.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>; <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If your second harddrive is all ready formatted, it's probably in dos. You don't want this. You are going to have to use the label editor(look it up in the hand book), similar to fdisk to partition it correctly. If you have a partition you want to use all ready, use the label editor to delete that partition and reparation again using the FreeBSD label editor to create the Slice, again read the hand book for newbies, it tells you how to do it step by step.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>; <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=uglywanda@hotmail.com href="mailto:uglywanda@hotmail.com">Wanda</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:47 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> About FreeBSD Operating System</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>To whom it may concern,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>I am writing to ask for help about installing the FreeBSD in my computer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>I have a DELL Optiplex GX 115, X86 Computer with Windows XP installed on the master drive 40 gigs. It has 512 Ram, 800 mhz, a slave drive 15 gigs which I want to install another operating system on for programming purposes. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>My question is, will the FreeBSD run on my slave drive, which is already partitioned and ready for installation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>I am so frustrated. I have read so much on different sites including redhatlinux etc., and I just want to download something that will work with mine.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>I tried the phatlinux, and it said it wasn't compatible with my X86, which it referred to as an older version. :::laughs:::: Sigh.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>Can you help me? Please?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>Thank You,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4>Wanda Williams</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Notepad size=4></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>help
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