Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:13:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tuanjoseph@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdisk partition Message-ID: <19970918161312.63741@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <970918015926_1929481334@emout11.mail.aol.com>; from Tuanjoseph@aol.com on Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 01:59:40AM -0400 References: <970918015926_1929481334@emout11.mail.aol.com>
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On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 01:59:40AM -0400, Tuanjoseph@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > > I hope you are in a good mood because I am truely a novice user. I bought > the > FreeBSD 2.2.2 CD-ROM today, the cute little devil make me do it! I read the > instruction and proceed to install the package into my PC( Pentium S, 32M > RAM). > Of course being a novice, I selected Novice to begin installing. I proceeded > to the Fdisk section and here the problem begin. I currently have Windows 95 > on my system and would like to keep it there.I am hoping to partition the > disk in such a way so that when I boot the system up I would be able to > select either FreeBSD, Windows 95, or DOS as an operating system. So here are > my stupid questions: > > 1) When you said to partition the disk, do you mean that of the 32M of RAM > on > my system will be allocate to each of the three operating system on my > computer? You can only run one of the systems at a time. Whichever one you run will use all of the memory (though FreeBSD will use it most efficiently, and DOS least efficiently). > 3) I have a 28.8 US Robotics CDROM drive, is that an unsupported > type? No. > What do you mean by unsuported type? I don't know. Does our documentation use that term in connection with modems? > When I bought the CD-ROM, I thought it would be goof-proof to > install. Boy I was wrong to make that assumption. I would > apppriciate any advice you will have for me. Please be as detail as > possible because I am truly a novice user especially with > terminologies! Well, we try. Do you have other problems? There's a book to go with it, which you can get from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. Greg
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