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From: rpritz@phantom.com (Richard Pritz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: install ??
Date: 27 Mar 1994 17:17:10 GMT
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I would like to install freebsd on a  drive that contains 1mb of 
os/2 boot manager, 225mb of os/2 and 98mb of free space.  Is the install 
program (freebsd 1.1 beta) likely to do damage to the rest of the disk? 
Can I use os/2 fdisk to set up some partitions, and then install freebsd 
to those partitions?  The fdisk program which comes with linux, 
reports that my first free cylinder is #704.  Freebsd install says that 
the first free cylinder is #703.  Is one counting from 0, the other from 1?

Will I have problems using os/2 bootmanager to boot *bsd?

and, finally, I'd like to RTFM.  The faqs and docs, other than the 
installguide, all seem out of date.  what should i read and where do i 
find it?