Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:03:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ianh@geocities.com (Ian Howson) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A bunch of questions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199708140703.AAA24388@geocities.com>
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Hi, I am currently working on getting FreeBSD installed and would appreciate it very much if you could answer some of my questions. 1. In the FAQs somewhere it mentions that FreeBSD will work with the OnTrack disk manager. Since I am a user of that I assumed it would be OK for me to just choose the BootEasy option when installing a boot manager. I did and it ended up erasing my driver software, making it impossible for me to access my D: drive (2GB) which contained everything but Windows 95. Why is it that FreeBSD stuffed up my driver software despite it saying it was OK in the FAQ? (BTW I got all my data back) 2. Later I went back and tried to install again. This time I chose 'None' for the boot manager option. I restarted my computer and was again slightly alarmed when I got the FreeBSD boot menu instead of 'Starting Windows '95'. I went into FDisk and reset the active partition to what it was before. Is there any better way of doing this (since I can't use BootEasy) Can I boot from a disk and have it automatically go into FreeBSD? 3. In both of the attempts before, it stopped installing when it got to 'Chunk 29 of 74' (about 40%) I thought I hadn't allocated enough to the / directory (I'd only given it 20M since I was running low on space) so I went and changed it to 50M. Same problem. Is there a problem with the BIN file and if so, is there an easy way to check if they downloaded OK? 4. What's the deal with this 2*MEM size for the swap file system? The way I interpret that it means you need a swapfile double the size of how much physical RAM you have. Shouldn't it be that the more RAM you have (I have 16M) the less swap space you need? Please explain. 5. The distribution options (like User, X-User, Developer, etc) are REALLY confusing! Can I simply assume all options are covered in the 70 BIN files you download, or do I need to get more files to use things like the ports collection? 6. How do I resize my primary partition on a disk? I did it once but it's too big and I can't figure out how to do it again. Thanks for your time. Ian Howson ianh@geocities.com
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