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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!news.Arizona.EDU!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!not-for-mail From: fitz@pisces.tuc.noao.edu (Mike Fitzpatrick) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD2.0 install/disklabel question Date: 5 Jan 1995 23:36:06 -0700 Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3eiocm$9cg@pisces.tuc.noao.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pisces.tuc.noao.edu Keywords: disk partitions, DOS, BSD I just recieved a Gateway P5-60 I'm trying to set up to run both DOS and FreeBSD2.0 (Walnut Creek Jan94 CD-ROM). After booting BSD from the floppies I start with Fdisk which says the entire 696Mb of available disk is set up as a DOS primary partition, I can edit this to get a 220Mb DOS and 476 BSD partition, using DISKLABEL I can then edit/assign the file- systems. The disklabel menu shows the MSDOS as partition e: with the full 696Mb size (even after using 'write' in Fdisk) and the entire disk d: partition as 697Mb. (Is this normal?) The real question is: If I go ahead with the install from this spot (past the proceed warning about "wiping the disk") will I simply be install- ing BSD on the 476Mb of disk I assigned (leaving the DOS partition alone) or does this action completely clean the disk of data but just leave the partitions as assigned?? The only thing on the disk now is what was shipped with the system, still I'd hate to have to rebuild it if setting up a BSD partition is going to hose it. Thanks in advance for any advice, I'm looking forward to getting this set up. Mike Fitzpatrick fitz@noao.edu