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From: jalvarez@uno.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INSTALL Problems: Hard Disk Partitions
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 14:55:11 PDT
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In Article<dhawkDG6u8p.A2w@netcom.com>, <dhawk@netcom.com> write:
> I've got a 400 MB IDE drive, so how can I set it up to be all
> FreeBSD?

David,

On the 'fdisk' step you can set up the whole disk as a FreeBSD
partition and then use the 'disklabel' step to set up different
filesystems. root (/) , swap and /usr would be a common set of
divisions.

Regards,
--Jesus Alvarez
  Software UNO