10-11-2002
Re: i tried installing freeBSD too...
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Originally posted by tr0jan
...but when it came to the 'fdisk' type partition program, i found that it wss showing a primary partition(c and the secondary partition (which contained my d:, e:, f. though it would not show f: individually, where i had actually planned to instal~ and run freeBSD. so i couldn't go past that step.
can anybody enlighten me on what i should probably do to install freeBSD?
FreeBSD MUST be installed in a primary partition - like your C partition. Secondary partitions are "extended" partitions.
FreeBSD will take that Primary Partition and use it for its needs. Yes - you can do something about your setup! A hard drive can have 3 primary partitions and 1 Secondary (there are variations, but you don't need to know them!)
You have two choices:
(1) Delete your secondary partition, install FreeBSD as a primary partition within a small space of the available hard disk, and then re-create your Secondary Slice afterwards!
(2)What you can do is shrink your Secondary partition, leaving enough space for another primary partition to be created on your hard disk - namely for FreeBSD.
PowerQuest's Partition Magic can perform both tasks above - there are some "GNU" equivelants, but I haven't tried them!
FreeBSD cannot be installed to an existing FAT (Win) partition - not to mention you2wouldn't want it to be either!
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
install-solaris
install-solaris invokes the Solaris Install program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
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The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:
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