free bsd 5.2 install help

smg

please help me install free bsd 5.2 i cant

Bash

What problem(s) do you have installing Free BSD 5.2?

smg

i have win 98 installed on the harddrive which has 4 gb left, and i don't know how to make partitions without losing windows.

Bash

Get Partition Magic and turn the extra 4GB into another partition, that is all I can tell you, I have absolutioutly no knowledge with Paertition Magic.

BTW What filesystem is the Win98 partition using?

smg

win is using fat32

TCPMeta

As far as I know Partition Magic is real user friendly. So I think you will beable to make a EXT3 filesystem very easyly in Partition Magic.

Thump

TCPMeta wrote:

As far as I know Partition Magic is real user friendly. So I think you will beable to make a EXT3 filesystem very easyly in Partition Magic.

It can. Shrink the C: partition and then click on the
freed up space and choose Create a new partition
and select ext3.
Thump

Slash

Note also that DOS version of PartitionMagic can't create Ext? partitions.

nightice

It can. (formats and everything) But, you'd be better off shrinking your Win98 partition and setting it up in the freebsd installer - it needs its own filesystem, not ext3.

BOD

back up everything first just in case

Slash

If i had a chance to backup everything, I wouldn't use Partmgk then. I'll use FDisk

Anonymous

FreeBSD doesn't use EXT3, or any Linux-specific filesystem. It uses UFS/UFS2. As long as you resize your current FAT32 partition down and leave some free space, the FreeBSD installer will see it and let you use it to create a FreeBSD slice.

eugrus

freeBSD installer includes a shell for its fdisk
what problems?
just make some unclocatted space first