Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:05:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Daniel <danielwu@leland.Stanford.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HELP]Installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810061403310.19930-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3617C03A.A4B73080@leland.stanford.edu>
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Daniel wrote: > I am a novice who is trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 release on my PC. > I've installed > MS Windows98 in one FAT32 partition. Following is a list of my > hardwares: > > CPU Pentium II-400 MHz > RAM 128 MB > Mainboard ASUS PII-B > Harddisk: IBM IDE 7200 rpm 10.1 GB > SCSI controller: Adaptec AHA-2940 UW PCI OK so far. IDE drive just a holdover or afraid to unlock the potential of your system? :-) > Display Card: Matrox Millennium G200 AGP Lucky you SuSE just released an X server for this. > Sound Card: Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI Not supported. > CDROM: TEAC 32X SCSI > Network Card: DLink DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter Eh... I *THINK* this is DEC-based but I'm not sure... > Questions: > 1. I am just wondering if these configurations supported by FreeBSD. > If not, what am I gonna do to install FreeBSD properly and correctly? Looks OK so far. > 2. When I first tried to install FreeBSD, after detecting hardware > configurations, the > installation program showed that "Syscon" and "PS/2 Mouse" ports > conflict to > each other. What to do to get rid of this confliction? (I don't want > to oprate X > windows without a mouse.) You don't, it's normal. > 3. In my IBM 10.1 GB harddisk, I fdisked two partitions, each takes 50% > of the > harddisk space. The "C:" partition already has Win98 installed, and > I want to have > FreeBSD installed in the "D:" partition. However, when it came to > the stage to create > a FreeBSD slice, I found the maximum storage space all FreeBSD > slices take up is > only a little more than 3 GB! This means I have to lose another 2 GB > unused! What > happened? FreeBSD requires it's own slice type. Delete drive D and use PartitionMagic to shrink down that extended partition. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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