From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 15:24:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18725 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13436; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Lofton cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: installing and using freeBSD In-Reply-To: <3542DC7D.5A916E69@osu.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Brian Lofton wrote: > I am running a Pentium II 266, with a Promise ATA 6.4 gig hard > drive. I have tried to install Linux, but Linux does not recognize my > hard drive. Will I have the same problem with freeBSD? Knowing Promise controllers, probably. You can try booting the boot floppy and see if it sees it though. > Also, freeBSD is supposed to be free, but most references are made > to installing from CD-ROM which happens to cost money. What's the deal > with that? You can download FreeBSD free from the internet at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD, or you can buy the CD set. The price of the CD set covers manufacturing, packaging, and a small profit (which goes back into the FreeBSD project BTW). > The instructions to install freeBSD has got to be one of the most > confusing lump of text I have ever run into, can you please tell me, in > simple terms, how I should go about installing freeBSD. I am running > Windows 95 OS. The problem is, installing FreeBSD isn't as simple as installing Office. If you're on WIn95, most likely your hard drive has one large partition for Windows. Since FreeBSD requires it's own partition, you have to delete, split, or resize a partiton to make room. You'll need a separate utility (FIPS or Partition Magic) to do this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message