Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:01:05 -0400 From: "Rod A Boyle" <boyler@pty.com> To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: <www@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Wanting to INSTALL FreeBSD Message-ID: <199706190011.TAA18368@pty.com>
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Doug, Thanks for the feedback and sorry that has taken so long to back with you. I have purchased a second HDD to install to my 9316 Advantage AST machine. It is a 420Mbyte, Conner CFS420A. Plus I have bought the FreeBSD 2.2.1 CDROM from Walnut Creek. Do you have any specific instructions on how to (1) Install the drive and not make a DOS drive and (2) how to Install the CD-ROM software to the new drive. I am a first timer with this sort of stuff on my home computer. I am a Systems Administrator for Solaris 2.3 operating on SUN platforms in a NETWORK configuration, however this really is not relevant to my new problem. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated as I am exciting to use UNIX in my house. I would like to get started as soon as possible. Rod boyler@pty.com ---------- > From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> > To: Rod A Boyle <boyler@pty.com> > Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Wanting to INSTALL FreeBSD > Date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 1:15 AM > > On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Rod A Boyle wrote: > > > I am wanting to install FreeBSD on my WINDOWS-95 system. I have a 3.1GIG > > HDD which is split partitioned. I have lots of stuff on both partitions > > but believe to have enough room for the FreeBSD install. Are they going to > > co-exist and will I bring up my system in either UNIX or WINDWOS-95 O/S > > mode. What to do? > > The problem you are going to run into is that some BIOSs can't boot any > operating systems that are past cylinder 1024 on the hard disk, somewhere > in the 500mb range. If you cut your disk in half, then you're over the > limit. > > The usual way to solve this is to create a small slice at the beginning of > the disk, install FreeBSD's root directory into that, then place the rest > of the installtion later on. This involves doing some acrobatics with > your Win95 partition which is difficult without any tape backup media. > > THe other solution is to buy another disk and dedicate one disk per OS. I > do this and it saves many, many headaches. > > FreeBSD provides a boot manager that will allow you to select between > Win95 and FreeBSD on startup. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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