From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 27 11:34:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27160 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27145 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06630; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E5A676.959A2BEB@dal.net> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:33:27 -0700 From: Studded Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0823 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BRIskater@aol.com CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Hell... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First off, all questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. We pick out stuff we need to make clear in the docs from that list most times. BRIskater@aol.com wrote: > First let me tell you a little bit about my computer. It is a Dell 300Mhz > 64mb of ram US Robotics modem, 1 6.1 GB hard driver, etc. The standard > computer that Dell sold about a year ago. Right now I have partitioned off my > computer with Partition Magic into four partitions. The Boot Manager, two > primary Win95 partitions, one mine and one my parents, and one extended > partition containing a backup Win95 and a shared partition which is called D: > in my partition and I think that's what it is in my parents. Right away you have a problem, there is no place to install FreeBSD there. FreeBSD must have its own (what DOS/Windows would call) PRIMARY partition. It cannot be installed in an extended logical drive. > What I want to do is install FreeBSD and what I've gathered from your page is > that I need to go to ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and download > something from there. No, you should DEFINITELY not install -Current. You want to start with a -Release version of FreeBSD. Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/, read ALL of the *.TXT documents, and plan your installation from there. > If I make the FreeBSD partition the > active one then Boot Manager will not come up. The only way I can think of to > get the Boot Manager back up is put in the Partition Magic Rescue floppy in > and then select the Boot Manager as the active partition. That's exactly right. I use Boot Manager myself and this is like a 2 second operartion. > Please help me. I > hope this e-mail has also explained to you what some of use non assembly code > programmers have trouble with. I thought I was good with computers, I know > some C++ and Java and Perl, but installing FreeBSD WOW!!!! now that's hard > stuff!!!! Actually installing FreeBSD on a dedicated machine is simplicity itself. It's when you start juggling 2 or 3 operating systems on the same computer that it gets pretty dense. As a veteran of this operation I can sympathize fully with you, but it is possible to do if you are persistent and aren't afraid to learn some things along the way. :) Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message