Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 16:14:05 -0500 From: username <mattox@csd.uwm.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ??? Message-ID: <3229FC9D.3A1@csd.uwm.edu>
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Greetings, I have reviewed your online installation documentation and still have a couple of questions. I presently have two hard drives. Both are Western Digital Caviar drives. The original drive (c:\) is a 200MB drive that presently has MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 installed with approximately 29MB free space left. I just have installed the second drive (slave) which is a 1.6GB drive. I have used fdisk on the second drive creating a 600MB primary dos partition and a 600MB dos extended parition. BTW I do not know or understand if this is what I should be doing... I also made these two partitions d:\ and e:\ drives. My intent was to partition the 1.6MB drive so I could run dos/windows applications and install FreeBSD. My original thought was I would partition the second drive into three sections thus reducing cluster sizes when writing files. Two partitions for dos/windows (d:\ and e:\) and the remaining 4MB area for BSD. Again, I do not know if this is a proper and logical approach or not. Is this a reasonable approach or is there a better one I should consider? Second question--if what I have done is reasonable and one of the better ways to partition the drive how do I access the 4MB area beyond the E:\ drive? How do install BSD in this unamed area? Any suggestions and assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. I hope to be able to successful install FreeBSD on the new drive and still use part of the drive for dos/windows applications. Also any suggestions on which method I should use to download BSD would be appreciated. I have internet access via modem from my home through the university's computer system. Thank you very much for your time. Arthelp
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