Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 12:36:14 -0700 From: "W.Atkins" <batkins@horizon.bc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Instalation Message-ID: <35F435AE.61B73419@horizon.bc.ca>
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Hi, I'm Bill Atkins and I just recently got the Walnut Creek CD distribution of FreeBSD. I was going to install it on my computer with the existing Win-95. Reading the Book.txt I gather that the FreeBSD partition must be within the first 504 meg of the disk. At the present time I had setup the disk with a C: of 1141 mb, D:of 834 mb, E: of 507 mb(fat 16), at the back of the disk is a hidden partition of 602 mb where I was going to put FreeBSD. It's a Fujitsu 3.2 gig drive.C: has 420 mb in use right now. Using Partition Magic I can reduce C: to say 470mb then put in the partition for FreeBSD in that location starting at 470mb. My Windows swap file is already on D: so the reduced c: shouldn't be a problem. Will it work? Also on lpt1 I have an Avision AV360C scanner piggybacked with the printer and lpt2 has an Iomega paralell port zip drive piggybacked with the printer there. The CD is an IDE, Creative quad speed, on bootup it is detected as Hitachi CDR-7730. I would really appreciate any info on whether this hardware will function with FreeBSD or just be a lot of problems. The motherboard is an Asus VX-97, with 48 mb ram , Pent 233 and ATI 3DExpression 4meg video. Thanks for any help. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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