From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 16:10:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.sri.com (mailgate.SRI.COM [128.18.243.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5155837B4E6 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19658 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2002 21:07:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate.sri.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 21:07:43 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by mailgate.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.1.18) with SMTP id M2002062614074325783 ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:07:43 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5QL8446024127; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:08:05 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5QL83qL069539; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200206262108.g5QL83qL069539@axp.csl.sri.com> To: reuben manickam P J Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reg installing FreeBSD on my m/c In-Reply-To: Message from reuben manickam P J of "Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:24:15 BST." <20020626202415.81522.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:08:03 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett 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 You need available, unallocated disk space on your hard disk ( to create one or more partions for FreeBSD ) With a stock XP install this will likely mean you will need to shrink the existing NTFS or FAT32 filesystem to make room for FreeBSD partition(s). After that is taken care of read The installation section (and more) of http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html - Mike P.S. If you break something on windows XP or lose your data it isn't my fault. backup what you think is important on your XP partition before doing this. > --0-600305111-1025123055=:81140 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > Hello, > > I am having a system with AMD athlon , windows XP configuration. If i need to > install FreeBSD in my m/c what needs to be done. Do i need to format my m/c > or i can install it just like that. > > Please reply with the details. > > Thanks for you help! > > Regards, > > Reuben > > > > --------------------------------- > Relive the FIFA World Cup goals with exclusive video highlights! > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/fc/en > --0-600305111-1025123055=:81140 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >

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I am having a system with AMD athlon , windows XP configuration. If i need > to install FreeBSD in my m/c what needs to be done. Do i need to format my m > /c or i can install it just like that.

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Please reply with the details.

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Thanks for you help!

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Regards,

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Reuben


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