From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 23:43:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1678C37B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 23:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-140-138.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.140.138]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA02351; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:42:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <000f01c0d78a$26f65370$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "N6REJ" , References: <001e01c0d789$3424eb20$089aca3f@disappointment> Subject: Re: How do I install properly Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:43:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The easy / troublefree way is to put one operating system per hard drive, and avoid the use of messy bootmanagers to load whatever OS you want. I prefer those removable hard drive brackets that let you exchange a drive in seconds. ----- Original Message ----- From: "N6REJ" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 4:36 PM Subject: How do I install properly > Hello everyone, sorry to bother y'all but I'm having a heck of a time > installing FreeBSD Properly. > I'm installing via boot floopies and ppp ftp. I have a 1.2g partition on my > 2nd harddrive that I'm willing to dedicate to it. My primary is Windows. > (ME if it makes a diff ) > the major thing I'm not too sure about is whether I should tell it I want it > to put things in the boot partition or not, and then wether I need to make > drive c "bootable" or not. I mean I know it needs to be for dos, and it is > currently of course, but FBSD does'nt seem to recognize that fact. I > thought I had it done right this morning but after I powered down it said > bad partition. > I want c: drive to be accesible as /c and d: as /d: ( ESPECIALLY D: ) which > are both FAT32 so that I can easily retrieve files I have stored there and > put somethere 2 if I choose too. > Please help. > Otherwise I'll just stay with Linux > > Troy > n6rej@tcsn.net > "I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do but what I > hate I do" > Rom 7:15 NIV > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message