From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 08:57:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04212 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04196 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA13087; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:57:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:57:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: stephen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help!! In-Reply-To: <3581CDB8.4CC845BB@clear.net.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, stephen wrote: > Dear sir or madam, > > I wanted to download the FreeBSD but I am totally lost. My system is not > running DOS. Win95 is really DOS 7 remember. ;) > What I have is this. NT server which is my usual platform (what I am > using now as I write this email on netscape). I have NT OS files on a > NTFS partiton, with dual boot operation with Win 95 on the another > partition drive D: so... C: drive is a small 'active' FAT partition for > the system boot files for both operating systems. My PC uses C: to get > started & gives me a choice on what OS I want to use. The other > partitions on this hard drive (FAT & NTFS) house the WIN 95, NT OS files > and my mail etc. > > Now I have a second hard drive 504mb completely blank, formatted with > FAT. I intend on installing your version of UNIX on this drive which I > have called Drive J:. So all I want to do is download FreeBSD off the > net and install it on drive J: > > How do I do this nice & simple? > > If dual boot is a problem with FREE BSD & my other OS's, I can set drive > J: maually to active before I exit NT. Then the system should boot to > FreeBSD on drive J: and then I should use FDISK on FREEBSD ( if their is > such a command) to switch back into NT & reboot if I wanted to go back > to NT. This is what Microsoft says to do. Then you certainly don't want to do it. :) > I would appreciate very much your help on this. I am new to UNIX & I > figured I had better to get to know more about it so FreeBSD seems like > the correct choice for me. FreeBSD (And other Unices) doesn't see hard drives the same way as other OS's. First of all, there are no drive letters: (In FreeBSD) wdc0 = The First IDE Controller (Primary) (UNIX starts counting with 0) wd0 = The First IDE Drive (Primary Master) wd1 = The Second IDE Drive (Primary Slave) wdc1 = The Second IDE Controller (Secondary) wd2 = The Third IDE Drive (Secondary Master) wd3 = The Fourth IDE Drive (Secondary Slave) Second of all, what other OS's call partitions, FreeBSD calls "slices": wd0s1 = The First slice on the Primary Master IDE Drive. (Commonly C: in DOS) And Third of all, FreeBSD further divides "slices" into (now this is confusing) "partitions" (Somewhat analogous to Logical Partitions in Extended Partitions in DOS): wd1s1a = The First partition on the First slice on the Primary Slave IDE Drive. (Commonly the root filesystem "/") That little bit of info, plus everything available in the FAQ and Handbook on the website should get you going. You'll probably find the most useful information at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html/. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message