From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 6:38:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from calais.pt.lu (calais.pt.lu [194.154.192.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BDC37B405 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 06:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pt.lu (ppp09-90070708-244.pt.lu [195.46.247.244]) by calais.pt.lu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA00150 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:38:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3BDAB9E2.5010407@pt.lu> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:42:58 +0200 From: Leon Kirsch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: [Fwd: FreeBSD Installation] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FreeBSD Installation Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:54:56 +0200 From: Leon Kirsch To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I want to install FreeBSD 4.4 on my Intel-PC in place of (Linux) partition /dev/hda7. Is the FreeBSD FDISK screen underneath the way to do it? -------------- screen display --------------------------------------------- Disk name: ad0 FDISK Parttion Editor DISK Geometry: 1046 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 16803990 sectors (8205MB) Offset Size(KB) End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags 0 31 62 - 6 unused 0 63 1028128 2056319 ad0s1 2 fat 6 = 2056320 1558035 5172929 ad0s2 2 fat 6 = 5172930 2008125 9189179 ad0s3 1 ext2fs 131 = 9189180 1767150 12723479 ad0s4 3 freebsd 165 C= <---------- 12723480 1614532 15952544 X 1 ext2fs 131 = | 15952545 425722 16803989 X 1 ext2fs 131 = | 16803990 2835 16809659 - 6 unused 0 | | --------------- cut rest of screen display -------------------------------- | | | --------------- Result of Linux df command -------------------- | | Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on | /dev/hda6 2015936 1514536 398988 79% / | /dev/hda7 1770920 862812 818148 51% /Mandrake80 <-- FreeBSD ---+ /dev/hda8 1616463 1089264 443663 71% /SuSE62 | /dev/hda1 1027856 828832 199024 81% /C: | /dev/hda5 1541984 167648 1374336 11% /D: | | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ----------- Result of 'Linux' fdisk -l command ------------ | | Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1046 cylinders | Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes | | Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System | | /dev/hda1 * 1 128 1028128+ 6 FAT16 | /dev/hda2 129 1023 7189087+ 5 Extended | /dev/hda5 129 320 1542208+ 6 FAT16 | /dev/hda6 321 575 2048256 83 Linux | /dev/hda7 576 799 1799248+ 83 Linux <-------------------------- /dev/hda8 800 1007 1670728+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 1008 1023 128488+ 82 Linux swap ------------------------------------------------------------ Some more questions. - under FreeBSD FDISK if Name=X does it mean this slice is not usable / reachable? - Can I reach / work on both DOS (fat) slices. - How do i make the FreeBSD bootable in order to boot FreeBSD, Linux and Windows via PartitionMagick (BootMagick)? Thank you very much. Leon Kirsch - vlkirsch@pt.lu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message