From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 02:06:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA24650 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA24645 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA07086; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:06:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:06:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Gregory J. Cusick" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions In-Reply-To: <32D2EA52.6933@harris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Gregory J. Cusick wrote: > I tried posting this to the newsgroup but did not get any response. I > hope that you could spare a moment to clear up some information > regarding installation of FreeBSD: > > 1) What exactly is meant by installing FROM an msdos partition? > I understand the required file structure must be replicated within this > partition. The does the installation process install FreeBSD OVER (on > top of) this partition (and then changes the partition ID to a5 or > whatever)? A DOS partition install installs FreeBSD, taking the source archives from a FAT-formatted partition. It doesn't overlay it. > 2) Is it possible to install FreeBSD to/over more than one partition on > the drive? If so, should these be extended dos partitions? No. In fact, your life will be horrible if you try to do this. > 3) I'm interested in development so I would like to have all sources, > X, etc. What should I be looking at in terms of disk space as a > minimum? > > I only have one drive (1.6GB) which will be shared by win95 and > FreeBSD. I understand that I have to have win95 installed first and > also that > the root slice (sub-partition) must lie before cylinder 1024. I just > want to make sure that the partition sizes will be adequate in size > while also meeting the disk location requirements. You mean the root partition (sub-slice). :) If you want *everything*, then I would say a gig or more. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major