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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: rlee11@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Having Problems Installing From DOS partition. Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 22:41:16 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 51 Message-ID: <4pi82i$jcs@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <4pdr81$3bb@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <31BB19E2.764D@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mvo-ca4-24.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Jun 10 5:37:06 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: >Think about it for a minute. You can't keep your old DOS partition if you >want to specify *all* of the drive for FreeBSD. On the other side, you >can't specify *all* of the drive for FreeBSD if you want to keep the DOS >partition. Also, once you specify *all* of the drive for FreeBSD, you no >longer have a DOS partition to load the distribution from. >Instead, set up the DOS partition as you want it, with the distribution >you want. Then, when you start the boot floppy and Novice install, select >(C)reate new FBSD partition. Install will try to assign all *unassigned* >space to your FreeBSD partition. Hit Enter to accept this and then go on >from there. >I hope this helps! >Ken Dear Ken, Thanks for reply. This was my first time running the install program and for some reason the DOS partition was not recognized and was not listed as used and so I tried both 'A' for all and 'C' for create seperate partition. I tried several times but still no DOS partition was listed. I downloaded freeBSD from a different site and created a new boot floppy. This seems to list the DOS partition and was able to load fine. The first time around I downloaded from several different sites. This time I downloaded from one site. I now wish to install other things such as X client/server, web sever etc. Can I use the boot floppy to install additional software or can you install in freeBSD? If you can install from freeBSD can you use the DOS partition for installation? The install program mentioned to use /stand/sysinstall Also, I wish to use FTP server, web server, etc.. on freeBSD as a server for a local net(as an Intranet solution) without actually being connected to the Internet? When I try to install the LAN card it asks for gateway/router numbers but I only want to use the web server right now for local area network. Where can I find information on configuring things like this? Thank you, Rick Thanks for the advice.