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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD
Date: 2 Mar 1996 19:57:41 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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RChetty@gnn.com (Raj Chetty) writes:
> I have a IBM Aptiva with 8meg memory. The hard disk is an EIDE set up us 
> master and connected to local bus. It is partitioned as follows using FDISK 
> that came with OS/2 Warp.
> 
> 	primary partition --------------Boot Manager------------Startable
> 	primary partition ----drive c---pc-dos/win 3.1---FAT----bootable
> 	Extended partitions---drive d---data files-------FAT----
> 			      ---drive e---min OS/2---------HPFS---bootable
> 			      ---drive f---OS/2 Warp etc----HPFS---bootable.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to install(Novice) FreeBSD on drive 'e' after deleting min 
>    OS/2? This partition is 48MBytes in size.

48 MB is rather tight.  It won't leave you much swap, and i'm not even
sure whether the minimal installation would fit.

I might be mistaken (i don't use any fdisk partitions at all), but i
believe you gotta install FreeBSD into a primary fdisk partition.
However, you've still got the fourth slot in your fdisk table
available, so after freeing up the space of your `min OS/2', you
should be able to fit it there.  (Actually, the installation program
will offer you this.)

(Don't get confused, we are calling the fdisk units ``slices'', since
the Unices have partitions of their own inside the slice..)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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