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drunk7daysaweek

Jan 30 2005, 21:02

Hello again,

I'm about to install freeBSD and have a few last minute questions:

Okay, I currently run Windows XP and Red Hat 9 dual boot, where at the beginning I select which O/S I want to use. I want to overwrite RH9 with freeBSD.

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SO when I start the install, it shows me the following screen:
Name PType Desc Subtype Flag
- 12 unused 0
ad0s1 7 fat 12
ad0s2 4 ext2fs 131
ad0s3 4 ext2fs 131
ad0s4 4 extended DOS, LBA - 15
- 12 unused 0

and it gives me some options... (a) use entire disk (d) delete slice (c) create new slice. NOw I'm assuming that ad0s3 is my RH9 partition (the size is larger than the other ext2fs), so do I first (d)elete this slice and then (c)create a new fragment in ad0s3?

The next screen is Install Boot Manager For Drive ad0
where I have 3 options:
1) Install FreBSD Boot Manager
2) Install standard MBR (no boot manager)
3) Leave MBR untouched.

Which one do I choose if I want to select the O/S at boot up?

Thanks in advance for any help, I just don't want to delete everything

markjensen

Jan 30 2005, 21:11

I can't answer most of your questions, but I can tell you that both ad0s2 and ad0s3 are your Red Hat installation. If you don't want Red Hat any more, you should remove those partitions.

Odd, but I don't see where your Linux 'swap' partition is/was...

drunk7daysaweek

Jan 30 2005, 21:13

QUOTE(markjensen @ Jan 30 2005, 21:11)

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I think ad0s2 is the swap and ad0s3 is the RH main installation.

markjensen

Jan 30 2005, 21:26

A swap partition is marked as such, but the two that show up are clearly marked as ext2.

Red Hat defaults to three partitions, a small /boot, your normal root (/), then a swap partition. When I have observed them, their order is always the same order as I mentioned them.

Not sure where your swap is though.

drunk7daysaweek

Jan 30 2005, 22:38

so which boot manager option should I use?

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