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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!141.211.144.12!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SEX Date: 8 Mar 1997 21:08:20 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5fskg4$5al@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <332072CE.5A56@postoffice.ptd.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961126] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36762 Joe Eggert <eggertj@postoffice.ptd.net> wrote: > Ha. Now that I got your attention, please read this. I need major > help. > Right now, my system has Win95 and WinNT 4.0. I threw in a spare 160MB > hard drive to install FreeBSD on. But after the install, I can't get > the F? from the boot manager. What exactly am I to do during the > install to get it to install corectly? Or, do I need a third party > software? Plus, one other small question. I am newer than a newbie at > UNIX. How exactly should I partion the 160? As of now, I have 20M for > /, 32M for swap, 50M for /usr, and 60M for /dev. Is this correct? > Thanx. > _joe > eggertj@postoffice.ptd.net There's a tutorial for users new to unix and FreeBSD at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html It's also at http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html This tutorial doesn't deal with installation at all, and I'm not much of an expert on that. However if I were parititioning a 160 megabyte space I'd probably use about 26 for /, 32 for swap, and everything else in /usr. Are you sure you installed the boot manager? You can do this after you install FreeBSD; it needs to be done from dos, preferably from a boot floppy running dos. Windows95 will not allow you to write to the Master Boot Record (I don't know about NT ). Annelise