Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:49:12 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: Sujit Manolikar <sujit_for_you@usa.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help me Message-ID: <39C0D758.398A0B98@mitre.org> References: <XFMail.000914153633.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 01-Jan-70 Sujit Manolikar wrote: > > dear sir > > > > i want to download and run your FreeBSD Unix. But i m rather confused about > > the installation. and partitioning the drive. plz help me. > > > > my hardware: > > > > Hard Disk 4.3 GB with only one large drive named C:\ and is not partitioned. > > > > i m currently running dos and windows on my machine. can i run the > > > > dos windows and FreeBSD simultaneously. and will it be as easy as pressing F8 > > key and selecting the OS to load. i m afraid that after installing the FreeBSD > > i will loose my Windows and Dos. plz let me know. > > Thanks for your interest, Sujit. > > If your drive is one large C: that is 4.3G then your filesystem is probably > FAT32. I know that the 'fips' program can handle FAT16 but I am not sure if it > also manages FAT32. Someone else perhaps can chip in on this? There is also > presizer.exe which should be able to do this. fips can handle FAT32. > Anyway, you will have to repartition your drive. I suggest you make 1G available > as a primary partition somehow. It is probably important that this partition > megins within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. If you already use the LBA > setting in your BIOS then this should not be a problem. Also, FreeBSD versions earlier than 4.1 must have the bootable drive below the 1024 cylinder (this has been coming up a lot recently). -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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