From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 17:16:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA10132 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10127 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:16:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA03554; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:14:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602160114.SAA03554@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Question about configuration To: lwatkins@midtown.net Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:14:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602151737.JAA11051@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Larry Watkins" at Feb 15, 96 09:37:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.