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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!ames!tulane.edu!cpk-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.fsu.edu!geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu!cain From: Joseph Cain <cain@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help to get started? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:21:07 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.961021081320.7991B-100000@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I hope this is an appropriate news group! I am attempting to start to install freebsd 2.1 from a Walnut Creek CD rom and it is supposed to be easy with all the documentation? My situation is that a student had put Red Hat on my Pentium with the following partitions: Drive 2 Partition Mb Useage 1 Non-DOS 8 1% 2 Non-DOS 532 52% 3 Pri-DOS 492 48% as from FDISK for my D drive. I have not been able to get this going since he left, so I want to use the space to install freeBSD. I get to the point on the instructions where it wants a mount point, but the help files ramble on about slices and options that are pretty confusing even though I more or less help manage my office Sparc2 running Solaris 2.5. What exactly does it mean when the setup program asks for a mount point? All I am presented with when I specify that I want to mount to my second drive is the whole drive, like it does not seem to know that it is already partitioned. ________________________________________________________________________ Joseph Cain cain@gfdi.fsu.edu, @leyla.gfdi.fsu.edu, @gly.fsu.edu ,or @scri.fsu.edu (904) 644-4014 (office) FAX (904) 644-8972/0098/4214 (904) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain