Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:00:39 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: "Ray, Pinaki" <pinaki.ray@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Formatting Harddrive for Installation Message-ID: <19990615080038.F828@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <C15155CADE2FD211A4A300062B000EDD20A61E@exchsa5.dsto.defence.gov.au>; from Ray, Pinaki on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:52:59AM %2B0930 References: <C15155CADE2FD211A4A300062B000EDD20A61E@exchsa5.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:52:59AM +0930, Ray, Pinaki wrote:
> I want to install FreeBSD on my harddrive using the CD-ROM (Walnut Creek)
> FreeBSD 3.0 Snapshot in my possession. At present my harddrive has been
> partitioned in several logical drives and I have installed the following
> OSs: DOS 6.2 on the first 1GB (FAT16) partition, NT4.0 (Build1381, Service
> Pack 5) on the second partition 4.2GB (NTFS), and I have left free 4 GB of
> space for FreeBSD. I want to know how do I format this space (4 GB) for
> installing FreeBSD on it.
Just leave it as free space. FreeBSD will make its own slice
(DOS:partition). If you create a partition FreeBSD will only ask
to delete it first, and then re-make it.
> Reading through all the files and the Handbook I
> find that FreeBSD can be installed 'from a MS-DOS partition' (but nothing
> more). What does that mean - can FreeBSD be installed on FAT16 or FAT32 or
> NTFS formats for that matter ? Or does FreeBSD has its own formatting
> tools ? --
FreeBSD needs it's own partition. "from a DOS partition" means just
that, you can copy the disttributions to a FAT (not NTFS) partition
and *install* from there. Not much point if you've got the CDs,
unless FreeBSD can't see your CD drive for some reason. Installing
from DOS would be used if you d/l FreeBSD from the 'net.
> In that case will FreeBSD be able to see all of 4 GB (or more if
> given) as a single partition ?
Should be able to. If it's an IDE HD it may depend on your BIOS
(as the partition does not start in the first 1024 cyls).
> Nothing explicitly is stated in the
> literature I could get hold on. Please advise me in details how to proceed.
> Also how shall I edit the NT loader 'boot.ini' so that I am able to choose
> from DOS, NT or FreeBSD on booting. Thank you.
>
This is covered in the FAQ.
> Pinaki Ray
> email: Pinaki.Ray@dsto.defence.gov.au
>
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