From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 22 10:03:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12841 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12826 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id UAA02044; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:02:38 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:02:38 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: scott mehl cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i need help In-Reply-To: <33AD468F.3CFC@flash.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, scott mehl wrote: > Hi I need help with installing FreeBSD. First I cant make a boot disk > cause i can only put 1.38 on a disk and not 1.4. Plus I want to have > 500mb of my 2.1 gig drive for freeBSD and the rest for windows 95. I > dont know how to do this. I read the maual that came with the cdrom but > i still dont know how. Please hel me out thanks! > First, take a look at the handbook, which you can browse at http://www.freebsd.org. It will probably be of great help. Second, the boot.flp is not meant to be copied onto a floppy, but is a complete floppy image. Use fdimage or rawrite (from the /tools) directory to put it on a floppy. As for your hard disk, you'll have to repartition. The fips utility that comes with FreeBSD can do this for you (assuming that your Win95 installation uses FAT and not FAT32), or you may purchase the excellent (IMHO) commercial utility called PartitionMagic (http://www.partition.com). You are strongly advised to read the installation docs on the CD, web etc. They *will* answer most, if not all, of your questions. Nadav