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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help to get started? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:00:51 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 90 Message-ID: <326C5503.41C67EA6@apl.washington.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.92.961021081320.7991B-100000@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-C3.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386) Joseph Cain wrote: > > 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 First, if you have decent net connectivity, I recommend that you consider installing 2.1.5 from ftp.freebsd.org or one of its mirrors. FreeBSD 2.1.5 has many enhancements, bugs fixes, and security patches. > 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. If you are intent on replacing everything on drive 2 or even part of the drive, I would use MS-DOS's fdisk utility and delete the above partition(s). Next, if you follow the above advice about 2.1.5, choose the novice install option during installation. This will solve your problem with slices, partitions, and mount points. Now, if 2.1 is your only option, then we need to get some terminology straight. Under FreeBSD a disk slice is equivalent to a MS-DOS partition. As the name implies, FreeBSD wants a slice of the disk. Other operating systems can reside in the other disk slices. Within the disk slice designated for FreeBSD, you set up partitions. These partitions will be similar to want you are use to on a Sun system. You'll need a minimum of 3 partitions on your system, and these partitions are commonly given the mount points /, /usr, and swap. Some people will choose to have a 4th (or even more partitions) with a mount point of /var. A practical example! On my system I have 2 operating systems (MS-DOS and FreeBSD). I have a scsi hard designated by the device name sd0. MS-DOS resides in the first disk slice sd0s1, and FreeBSD resides in the second slice sd0s2. (Note: a disk can up to 4 slices.) I have partitioned the FreeBSD slices as follows: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 31) b: 75776 65536 swap # (Cyl. 32 - 68) c: 657408 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 320) e: 30720 141312 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 69 - 83) f: 485376 172032 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 84 - 320) with the following mount points /dev/sd0a / /dev/sd0s2b swap /dev/sd0s2e /var /dev/sd0s2f /usr > 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 -- Steve finger -l kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html