Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:19:37 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, Chester Lew Chean Wei <cwlew@mmu.edu.my> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <01092910193705.20245@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20010928112658.A17739-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20010928112658.A17739-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Friday 28 September 2001 11:32, Joe Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Chester Lew Chean Wei wrote: > > Hi, > > Dear Sir/madam, > > > > Moring to you, I have some problem over FreeBSD, hope you can > > help. 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 Was that unused space within the extended partition or was it space outside of the extended partition? FreeBSD cannot install into a logical partition, only a physical partition. This is, IMHO, probably FreeBSD's greatest weakness. > > "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. > > > > There is some question that i would like to ask; > > > > 1) Can i have Red Hat Linux 6.2 as my first OS and install > > FreeBSD and make it "dual-boot" enable? > > Yes, there are pages in the handbook that tell you how to do this. > > http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.html > > > 2) Can i run a network installation? > > Sure! FreeBSD supports FTP and NFS installations. I've used both, and > they work quite well. Since I don't always have access to install CDs, I > use the FTP install a lot. Again, see the handbook off of freebsd.org for > more on installation tasks. > > Joe > > > Thank you a lot for your assistance and hope to hear from > > you soon. > > > > > > Chester Lew Chean Wei > > Technical Assistant (FIST) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This message was sent using MMU Webmail (Malacca) - > > http://webmail.mmu1.edu.my > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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