Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:13:17 +0200 From: Jalle <defacto@home.se> To: "burak buyuran" <mysteriousknight555@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about install and removing freeBSD Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20030520200038.00bc3ca8@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F108rUVYKkpLTk000143aa@hotmail.com>
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At 15:52 2003-05-20 +0000, burak buyuran wrote: > Hello freeBSD team, > I wanna ask you some questions about installing and removing freeBSD 5.0 > for i386. I tried to install freeBSD 5.0 for i386 to one of my friends PC > last week.I installed freeBSD 5.0 well to his PC,but i think i did > something wrong in the partition section of installing(By the way i > installed freeBSD 5.0 by CDrom and using "miniinst" CD ) . > Here are my questions; > 1-Does this installing stuff has a graphic interface?If so,how can i > install it by using a graphical interface? Question already answered, but no, there is no graphical installer for FreeBSD. A lot of ppl like the curses-based installation tool better, but IMHO, I wouldn't mind if there was a graphical installer as well... Let ppl chose themselves what they want to use. But hey, if I want it so badly, why don't I just make one myself? =o) But the sysinstall interface is quite easy to use, don't be scared just because you can't use the mouse. It's easy to follow the installation up the the... > 2-The partition section of the install was very complex and > confusing,which selections and choices you advice me during that > partition section? ...where most newcomers (and some of the more experienced users too) get confused. FreeBSD uses the term "slice" instead of "partition". The handbook covers this kinda neatly. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html See section 2.5.6 for size indications... > 3-How can i remove(uninstall) this Operation Sytem freeBSD 5.0 from the > drive that i installed? Why would you want to do that?!? =o) Well, I suppose "fdisk" or "format" would do the trick. If you want a graphical tool for this, try Partition Magic for windows, or the Disk Management tool in w2k/winXP. > My questions are just 3 now :) > I'll be glad if you consider these questions and reply to me. > Have a nice day. U 2! /Jalle >_________________________________________________________________ >Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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