From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 15: 4:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAE01534F for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA316C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:59:12 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1879; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:03:01 +1100 Message-ID: <388CD973.E65F422A@S1.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:00:03 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: YUL@macronix.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (fBSD in extended partition) References: <88256870.00768589.00@ussmtp01.macronix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day Carl, > > Can I install FreeBSD on drive D (1.9 GB)or other logical drives? yes you can. Indeed, I did just such a thing Sunday night on my wife's PC - although, it was Win98 on 3G primary partition and FreeBSD3.3 on the 1G extended partition. My paranoia was unfounded regarding backups (did a full backup of the data on the Win98 partiton before starting), and the FreeBSD install proceeded smoothly thanks to Grog's excellent advice in "The Complete FreeBSD - 3rd Edition". I installed the base system for X-User, Linux emulation, then loaded fvwm95 (keeping the interface similar to ease the transition) and then loaded Corel WordPerfect 8 - and it worked first time! WP8 is a bit slow on a P90 with 'only' 40MbRAM, but once started is quite spritely. And having access to the Win98/FAT32 disk is "nice" too :') hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message