Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:20:27 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: Stephen Wenzler <swenzler@zeus.jersey.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: little confusion and diffeculties Message-ID: <19971223222027.27594.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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---Stephen Wenzler <swenzler@zeus.jersey.net> wrote: > > Hello, I have few questions for you regarding installing freeBSD O/S and > I'm just wondering how much space of hard drive is needed at mininum or > recommanded space Minimum can be 1.44Meg :-) (Really) Realistically 50-100 Meg min. Recommended depends a lot on what you'' be doing with the machine. Witing code or running WWW server etc etc and how to setup to have multi-boot between Windows 95 > and freeBSD OS. There is an entire section in the handbook dedicated to installing and running multiple OSes. In a nutshell it goes something like this: defragment your DOS/Win95 drive. Partition it using FIPS or Partition Magic or whatever. Install FreeBSD into the new, unformated partition. Install a boot manager to prompt which OS to boot into (like booteasy). I also encounters some minor problems installing the OS > via FTP is that the instructions is not very clear when I reaches a page > that tells me how to setup the hard drive, I needed to set up a new > patition to share with the DOS patition without losing the DOS data also > I encounters problems when I am done entering necessery IP and other > addresses in PPP setup page since it lacks a terminal mode that allows > me to communicate with modem and estiblish a PPP connection with my > local ISP so I can peforms FTP transfer and installs the OS. Could you > able to give me a simplified step by step instructions starting off with > 'Start install for Novice users' so I can successfully installs the OS I'll go ahead and recommend to simply download the stuff to the local drive into C:\FREEBSD subdirectory and install from a DOS partition. It's less elegant but, hey, it works. > and preseving my Windows 95 OS. Also I need information on how to > uninstalls the OS and restoring the orginal FAT to full capacity of the > hard drive without loss of the data. Thank you! To uninstall FreeBSD use the disk partitioning software to remove the partition. Then run a DOS utility call FDISK /MBR to remove booteasy. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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