From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 13 19:57:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05520 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05515 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id CAA01322; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 02:57:17 GMT Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:57:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Chris Lambrou cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: I think I got the wrong list! In-Reply-To: <01IK1H3MLBPC99DZPP@MAIL-CLUSTER.PCY.MCI.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 Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Chris Lambrou wrote: > 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. > > 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 Certainly does :) I'd backup the D: drive, repartition it half and half, and then install FreeBSD. Actually I'd just Dangerously Dedicate* the C: drive, but that's me :) Prepare to be amazed at how fast that box is when you run FreeBSD on it. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 * DD sets up a BSD only disk