From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 13 19:53:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05378 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05373 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv2.pcy.mci.net (mailsrv2.pcy.mci.net [204.71.1.40]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA17031 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from akis (usr24-dialup11.mix2.Boston.mci.net) by MAIL-CLUSTER.PCY.MCI.NET (PMDF V5.1-8 #10045) with ESMTP id <01IK1H3M1NGE99DZPP@MAIL-CLUSTER.PCY.MCI.NET> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 22:49:08 EDT Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 22:52:53 -0400 From: Chris Lambrou Subject: Re: I think I got the wrong list! To: FreeBSD , Dan Busarow Message-id: <01IK1H3MLBPC99DZPP@MAIL-CLUSTER.PCY.MCI.NET> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > freebsd-questions is the right list. OK, Cool. Before I go on let me just say that I know absolutely NOTHING about UNIX systems administration/setup. The only UNIX knowledge that I have is from CGI programming. So Here's my question: I am currently running NT 4 on a Pentium Pro 200 with 64Mb RAM. I have a 1.2 Gig drive C:\ with 200Mb free and a 2.8 Gig drive D:\ with around 1.2 Gig free. I want to install FreeBSD, and dual boot in NT or FreeBSD. I'll be using the NT boot manager. According to the online documentation, this is possible. So I created a boot floppy, and I booted the machine. And I got to this Disk Geometry screen. What scares me here is the word "partition". Does this mean "partition" in the DOS sense? Because that would mean that the partitioning would delete my whole drive. Does FreeBSD require a clean drive C:\ ? Or can I just install on the remaining free space on the C:\ drive? Thank you all for your help. Chris Lambrou CGL Internet Services E-mail: chrislambrou@internetmci.com WWW: http://www.cglis.com