Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:14:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: lwatkins@midtown.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about configuration Message-ID: <199602160114.SAA03554@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602151737.JAA11051@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Larry Watkins" at Feb 15, 96 09:37:18 am
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> I'd like to enter Unixland -- I'm a beginner. I have a
> question about what I can do to run FreeBSD.
>
> I have a Pentium 90, SCSI 1GB HD, SCSI CD-ROM, 16MB RAM,
> tape backup, multimedia machine. It's dual boot, partitioned
> 350 DOS FAT and 650 OS/2 HPFS.
>
> I've thought of taking it in to a dealer and asking to have
> the hard drive reformatted to 300 FAT, 300 HPFS, and 400 for
> Unix but that's a lot of work and expense getting everything
> back in running condition. I've thought a better solution
> might be to add another hard drive for Unix and installing
> FreeBSD on it. Then I expect I'd be able to boot up as Unix
> from a floppy, or as DOS or OS/2 as I have in the past by
> booting from C:.
>
> Would this work or is there a better solution? What would be
> your recommended size of new hard drive? Will the hardware I
> currently have, other than the disk drive, work? What more
> should I know before pursuing this further? Is this a good
> idea?
FIPS would be ideal, only it doesn't work on HPFS.
There is a commercial product called "{artition Magic" made by
a Utah company that I forget right now that will allow you to
do FIPS-like things, only it works better thanFIPS and can even
convert FAT to HPFS, resize FAT OR HPFS, and so on...
It's sold retail in placed like Egghead software; It's less than
most DOS games, I think.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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