From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 20:42:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA13465 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13432 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00365; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:42:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: SMoo cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <322F7684.5B26@jump.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 Thu, 5 Sep 1996, SMoo wrote: > Hello again > > I seem to be running into a few problems installing FreeBSD onto my > system > > I FTP'd all the files tht the documentation said were necessary, and > proceed with the installation. > > I beet from the boot disk i made with rawrite just fine (so far so good) > I choose a novice install, because i'm truly a novice at the > ionstallation of unix, not at the operation. > > I setup my hard drive with the following: > > wd0s1 /bogus 2047MB DOS > wd0s2a / 332MB UFS Y > wd0s2b 6MB SWAP No. You want/need to split up your filesystems. Configure it using the 'A' option to accept the defaults. That will set up the root, /usr, and /var filesystems and the appropriate swap space for your system. > i'm pretty familiar with unix as i work at the aix helpdesk at ibm > austin texas, so "technobabble" doesnt bother me :) Well, AIX has very little in common with BSD, so you're out in new territory here. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major