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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Chester Lew Chean Wei <cwlew@mmu.edu.my>
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Chester Lew Chean Wei wrote:

> The problem are I have linux RedHat 6.2 install to my PC as
> a OS, my UNIVERSITY (Multi-Media University Malaysia) wants to
> install FreeBSD 4.2 and have the PC as Dual-boot, I follow the
> installation guide on www.freeBSD.org, first I use Partition
> Magic to free up some space from my Linux, so it was called
> "Unused". After that i try to install FreeBSD with a "standard
> Installation", but when i come to chose or slide the disk space,
> the free space cannot been see or detect, so i was not able to
> install FreeBSD.
What happened exactly?
You opened the fdisk-menu and there was no free diskspace
written out in the upper lines?


> 1) Can i have Red Hat Linux 6.2 as my first OS and install
> FreeBSD and make it "dual-boot" enable?
Yes.

> 2) Can i run a network installation?
Yes. But when you are new to freebsd installation from CD is
simpler.

Regards.


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