Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:01:12 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: gcusick@harris.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions Message-ID: <32D37E78.4407@barcode.co.il> References: <32D2EA52.6933@harris.com>
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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)? No. FreeBSD always gets installed over unpartitioned disk space. The meaning of installing from a dos partition is simply that the distribution files will be taken from the DOS partition instead of from the CDROM or the net (via ftp). This is the way to use if: 1. You can't install from a CD. 2. You can't/don't want to install directly from FTP (perhaps because you want to install to more than one machine and want to download the files just once). > > 2) Is it possible to install FreeBSD to/over more than one partition on > the drive? If so, should these be extended dos partitions? I think it is possible to use more than one slice on a single drive (I haven't tried this though, so I may be wrong). In any case, all partitons FreeBSD uses *must be* FreeBSD partitions, created with the installation program over previously unpartitioned space *and not* DOS partitions of any sorts. You can only boot a single (the first) FreeBSD slice on a disk though. > > 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'd say that about 500MB can be comfortable enough, depending on what you plan to install. The X sources are (if I remember correctly) about 200MB, so if you want X sources you should go for 750MB. > > 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. > > I've looked for these specific things but have been unable to find them. > I hope you can help me out or point me to the information. > > THANKS! > > Greg > (Looking forward to running FreeBSD soon!) Good Luck Nadav
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