From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 23:43:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11723 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA11718 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA20774; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:13:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970918161312.63741@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:13:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tuanjoseph@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdisk partition References: <970918015926_1929481334@emout11.mail.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <970918015926_1929481334@emout11.mail.aol.com>; from Tuanjoseph@aol.com on Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 01:59:40AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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