From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 12:26:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA10515 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:26:35 -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 MAA10507 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA26159; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:26:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:26:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: sgh@sns.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 18 Jan 1997 sgh@jack.sns.com wrote: > this may be a dumb one but ya got me all paranoid.... > I have a 631mb master & a 1220mb master--CD slave to latter > on the first I've got vfat16|| over here I wanna put bsd > or watever it is (w'95good)|| > first 450mb for w'95 last || > 181mb linux v2.0 root part|| > whew,so, if'n I install her (BSD) from CD to 1221 master(2nd) > is there any or much chance of screwing up first master... I have > a office suite there and am too stubborn for floppy bkup. > also,curious,is Diamond stealth64 supported now?? If you do your partitioning right, you shouldn't break anything. FreeBSD does require unallocated partition space, so you can't install on a FAT partition. You can install FROM one if your CD doesn't appear to work (which it should). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major