Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:22:41 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: DAlSault@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does install slice or partition or whatever? Or do I have to do it first? Message-ID: <3B6AEBF1.32D805CC@urx.com> References: <fe.a027d94.289bda8f@aol.com> <20010803081332.A295@localhost>
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User & Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > 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. The 1024 cylinder rule only applies to old versions of FreeBSd. You don't have to worry about versions after 4.1. For example, on my dual 866 coppermine system, the root file system on a multiboot system is located around 8-15GB in on the HD. With LBA turned on, cylinder 1024 is 8.4GB. Kent > > Ian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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