From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 8:35:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C1037B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e91FZHw13486; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:35:17 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: vetri mudaliar Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About installation Message-ID: <20001001083517.C27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001001150319.17387.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001001150319.17387.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net>; from vmudaliar@usa.net on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:03:19AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * vetri mudaliar [001001 08:03] wrote: > Dear sir, > I am a very new user of FreeBSD OS.Basically I am from windows > background but i want to learn FreeBSD OS. > > I have downloaded 4.1/bin directory and is located in folder of > windows98.I want to know how much min free space is required for FreeBSD and > whether it can be dual boot with windows98.How can I install from there > (windows directory),is it possible to install from there ?. FreeBSD requires a partition of about 400 megabytes, however if you're serious about running it you'll want to go with at least a gigabyte or two. The files you downloaded need to be in C:\FreeBSD, you'll also want to download the manpages as well. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message