From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Apr 10 14:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16303 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mayo.nais.com (root@mayo.nais.com [205.229.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16097 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oll@nais.com) Received: from nais.com (popcp76-145.cp.nais.com [204.253.76.145]) by mayo.nais.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17027 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:19:40 -0400 Message-ID: <352E8D38.82CD922D@nais.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:20:57 -0400 From: "László L. Orosz" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation Prerequisites Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------AFA07A2641229A987911D6A8" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------AFA07A2641229A987911D6A8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, In your installation manual, in section 2.2.1, you state that "Once you have booted from DOS or floppy, you should then be able to select CDROM at the media type in the Media menu and load the entire distribution from CDROM." Before I would hit the Enter key, however, I like to know something more about the destination of that loading! The manual does not deal with installation prerequisites in terms of required number, type (primary/logical), and size of disk partitions for native freeBSD, swap and other required or optional partitions; does not describe the partitioning process, and the installation of a boot manager. It does not describe the capabilities of the boot manager in terms of Where it resides? How many operating systems can it recognize? Beside switching to a selected operating system Can it activate the selected primary partition and deactivate the other primary partitions? Can it hide and reveal partitions (primary as well as logical) to aid the definition of the scope of view of an operating system? I would appreciate if someone could shred some light on these issues to help me to decide whether I should try to attempt to install freeBSD. Thanks László --------------AFA07A2641229A987911D6A8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit  Hi,

In your installation manual, in section 2.2.1, you state that  "Once you have booted from DOS or floppy, you should then be able to select CDROM at the media type in the Media menu and load the entire distribution from CDROM."  Before I would hit the Enter key, however, I like to know something more about the destination of that loading!  The manual does not deal with installation prerequisites in terms of required number, type (primary/logical), and size of disk partitions for native freeBSD, swap and other required or optional partitions; does not describe the partitioning process, and the installation of a boot manager. It does not describe the capabilities of the boot manager in terms of

     Where it resides?
     How many operating systems can it recognize?
     Beside switching to a selected operating system
       Can it activate the selected primary partition and   deactivate the other primary partitions?
       Can it hide and reveal partitions (primary as well as   logical) to aid the definition of the scope of view of an operating system?
 
I would appreciate if someone could shred some light on these issues to help me to decide whether I should try to attempt to install freeBSD.

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