Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)
Hi, I am trying to install Free BSD on my Laptop, The boot disk is not detecting my HDD, i am using FUJITSU HDD 80GB, Y? Some junk text is moving from bottom to top, Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- JPMorgan Chase, 18 Christchurch Road Floor 1, Bournemouth, BH1 3BA , UK Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/12/2007 02:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop withdual boot?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks? After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My Free BSD) to distribute to others? One more question: Can I use ZFS on Free BSD? Cheers, B.Manikandan Bournemouth, UK Please do not top post. There are couple of ways to create a custom FreeBSD CD and you will find them by simply googling. I have not tried any, but this one looks promising: http://livecd.sourceforge.net/documentos.php It is available in the ports collection too: /usr/ports/sysutils/livecd ZFS will be available on FreeBSD 7. - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)
Thank you Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- JPMorgan Chase, 18 Christchurch Road Floor 1, Bournemouth, BH1 3BA , UK Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/12/2007 02:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop withdual boot?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks? After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My Free BSD) to distribute to others? One more question: Can I use ZFS on Free BSD? Cheers, B.Manikandan Bournemouth, UK Please do not top post. There are couple of ways to create a custom FreeBSD CD and you will find them by simply googling. I have not tried any, but this one looks promising: http://livecd.sourceforge.net/documentos.php It is available in the ports collection too: /usr/ports/sysutils/livecd ZFS will be available on FreeBSD 7. - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks… After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My Free BSD) to distribute to others… One more question: Can I use ZFS on Free BSD? Cheers, B.Manikandan Bournemouth, UK Please do not top post. There are couple of ways to create a custom FreeBSD CD and you will find them by simply googling. I have not tried any, but this one looks promising: http://livecd.sourceforge.net/documentos.php It is available in the ports collection too: /usr/ports/sysutils/livecd ZFS will be available on FreeBSD 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks? After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My Free BSD) to distribute to others? One more question: Can I use ZFS on Free BSD? Cheers, B.Manikandan Bournemouth, UK Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/12/2007 07:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. Please help me ASAP Cheers, B.Manikandan UK Before actually tuning FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) to your business needs (which we don't know...) you should take more time to familiarize yourself with the system, perform test installs and so on. Also don't forget to read the documentation. FreeBSD has an excellent documentation set, comprising of FAQ, articles and an excellent handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The handbook will answer most of your questions. Many others you will be able to answer yourself by experimenting and gaining experience. You will only get useful answers from the list if your questions are quite specific and you have done your homework beforehand. - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. Please help me ASAP Cheers, B.Manikandan UK Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/2007 08:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology SNIP Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers B.Manikandan UK Processor should pose no problem. Additionally, I find nvidia chipsets to be widely compatible with FreeBSD. You don't mention devices like wireless and ethernet, if you do know the models, you may be able to find if they are supported in the release notes / hardware compatibility of FreeBSD. The graphics card will be no problem with either the nv open source driver or the proprietary Nvidia from ports (or from nvidia directly). About your questions on dual boot, since I have a notebook dual booting (actually triple booting) Vista, FreeBSD and Linux I can give you some hand on information: - The info you have been given about Partition Magic, GParted and PartedMagic should work fine. You could use any of these tools to shrink your Windows Vista partition. Make sure Vista boots after this operation. The new MS loader seems to break rather easily. In the event it does not boot you will need a Vista DVD to boot and select to repair. This sounds more frightening than it really is, it does not happen often and the repair works (automatically). - When installing FreeBSD, when asked about the boot manager select NOT to install it. Do NOT let it touch the MBR. Vista uses a different loader from XP and it will probably fail to boot afterwards. - When installation is finished, you will not be able to boot into FreeBSD, but fear not. Boot into Vista and install the free EasyBCD program: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 With this, you can add the choice for FreeBSD to your Vista bootloader (a new system called BCD) . It is trivially easy to setup and works extremely well. Hope this helps. Manolis - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. Please help me ASAP Cheers, B.Manikandan UK Before actually tuning FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) to your business needs (which we don't know...) you should take more time to familiarize yourself with the system, perform test installs and so on. Also don't forget to read the documentation. FreeBSD has an excellent documentation set, comprising of FAQ, articles and an excellent handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The handbook will answer most of your questions. Many others you will be able to answer yourself by experimenting and gaining experience. You will only get useful answers from the list if your questions are quite specific and you have done your homework beforehand. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:32:11PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and figure you just haven't learned yet how to effectively find documentation. These are some documents that may be of use to you for tuning FreeBSD. Kernel config: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html System configuration files: man 8 config General performance tuning: man 7 tuning Security tuning: man 7 security Security tuning for the X Window System: man 7 Xsecurity Searching for FreeBSD docs on the web: Go to Google and add freebsd handbook to your search string, with quotes. If that doesn't work, try freebsd (without quotes) instead. Searching for information in manpages: Use either the apropos or man -k command, with a search term as an argument. For instance, apropos tuning or man -k tuning would have led to the tuning(7) manpage. When you find a manpage that is in the same general topic area, but you still want more information, check the SEE ALSO section of the manpage. The FILES section is sometimes useful for finding more information, too -- and sometimes, the listed files have their own manpages. Learning to research your own answers is a good idea for a whole lot of reasons. FreeBSD is one of the most well-documented OSes I've ever seen, so perhaps your tendency to ask questions without bothering to try looking up the information in standard documentation first is based on experience with other, less well-documented OSes. Once you become more familiar with the quality and extensiveness of FreeBSD documentation, you will surely find that some simple research is faster for most tasks than any user community mailing list or telephone support line could ever be. Hope that helps. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
thank you Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- JPMorgan Chase, 18 Christchurch Road Floor 1, Bournemouth, BH1 3BA , UK Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/2007 09:59 PM To: Chess Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0 and found it to be completely inadequate - the CD wouldn't boot correctly it seems to have errors in the scripts and it would not talk to my USB drive which I wanted to divide up - the reason for going to 8.0. So, I am not sure which utility to recommend for dividing the disk. If it is FAT, then a couple of free utilities come with FreeBSD that might work (I haven't tried them), but if it is NTFS, then they will not work and you will need to get something else. Partition Magic 7.0 will work fine, but I don't know where you would get a copy nowdays. There is another utility out there called 'Partition Commander' I haven't used it, but might, after I get my PM 8.0 mess cleared up. There are also some good Linux-based Live CD's that are essentiall Partition Magic clones, one is GParted Live CD and the other is Parted Magic. They are very small iso's that pretty much just have a small window manager and some sort of disk partitioning tool like parted. I have used them to partition disks with great success. I knew there were some others out there now, but haven't had time to go looking. The free ones that come with FreeBSD are OK too except they don't work with NTFS type slices and that is what you get with most new machines nowdays. If you want to keep that NTFS system, then you have to get a utility that will work with it. Thanks for the pointers, jerry Good luck! Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers B.Manikandan UK - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- JPMorgan Chase, 18 Christchurch Road Floor 1, Bournemouth, BH1 3BA , UK - Forwarded by Manikandan X Balachandran/JPMCHASE on 03/12/2007 11:27 AM - Manikandan X Balachandran 03/12/2007 11:26 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org cc: Subject:Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot? Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers B.Manikandan UK - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0 and found it to be completely inadequate - the CD wouldn't boot correctly it seems to have errors in the scripts and it would not talk to my USB drive which I wanted to divide up - the reason for going to 8.0. So, I am not sure which utility to recommend for dividing the disk. If it is FAT, then a couple of free utilities come with FreeBSD that might work (I haven't tried them), but if it is NTFS, then they will not work and you will need to get something else. Partition Magic 7.0 will work fine, but I don't know where you would get a copy nowdays. There is another utility out there called 'Partition Commander' I haven't used it, but might, after I get my PM 8.0 mess cleared up. So, anyway, I am sure you can make a dual boot, if you can get the disk divided.The handbook instructions work find. You will need to squeeze the current MS-V Primary Partition down to make room and then create another Promary Partition above it to install FreeBSD. Note that what FreeBSD callt slices MS called Primary Partitions. There might already be two. HP (and Dell and some others) puts its own small slice (Primary Partition) with diagnostic and maintenance stuff on first and the MS slice (Primary Partition) on second, so FreeBSD might well need to go in to the third slice. No problem. Just remember it is then slice 3, instead of slice 2 - slices are counted 1,2,3,4. Once you get the disk divided, just do a regular install in the new slice you created. It works the same as a single-boot install. jerry HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers B.Manikandan UK - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0 and found it to be completely inadequate - the CD wouldn't boot correctly it seems to have errors in the scripts and it would not talk to my USB drive which I wanted to divide up - the reason for going to 8.0. So, I am not sure which utility to recommend for dividing the disk. If it is FAT, then a couple of free utilities come with FreeBSD that might work (I haven't tried them), but if it is NTFS, then they will not work and you will need to get something else. Partition Magic 7.0 will work fine, but I don't know where you would get a copy nowdays. There is another utility out there called 'Partition Commander' I haven't used it, but might, after I get my PM 8.0 mess cleared up. There are also some good Linux-based Live CD's that are essentiall Partition Magic clones, one is GParted Live CD and the other is Parted Magic. They are very small iso's that pretty much just have a small window manager and some sort of disk partitioning tool like parted. I have used them to partition disks with great success. Good luck! Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology SNIP Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers B.Manikandan UK Processor should pose no problem. Additionally, I find nvidia chipsets to be widely compatible with FreeBSD. You don't mention devices like wireless and ethernet, if you do know the models, you may be able to find if they are supported in the release notes / hardware compatibility of FreeBSD. The graphics card will be no problem with either the nv open source driver or the proprietary Nvidia from ports (or from nvidia directly). About your questions on dual boot, since I have a notebook dual booting (actually triple booting) Vista, FreeBSD and Linux I can give you some hand on information: - The info you have been given about Partition Magic, GParted and PartedMagic should work fine. You could use any of these tools to shrink your Windows Vista partition. Make sure Vista boots after this operation. The new MS loader seems to break rather easily. In the event it does not boot you will need a Vista DVD to boot and select to repair. This sounds more frightening than it really is, it does not happen often and the repair works (automatically). - When installing FreeBSD, when asked about the boot manager select NOT to install it. Do NOT let it touch the MBR. Vista uses a different loader from XP and it will probably fail to boot afterwards. - When installation is finished, you will not be able to boot into FreeBSD, but fear not. Boot into Vista and install the free EasyBCD program: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 With this, you can add the choice for FreeBSD to your Vista bootloader (a new system called BCD) . It is trivially easy to setup and works extremely well. Hope this helps. Manolis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0 and found it to be completely inadequate - the CD wouldn't boot correctly it seems to have errors in the scripts and it would not talk to my USB drive which I wanted to divide up - the reason for going to 8.0. So, I am not sure which utility to recommend for dividing the disk. If it is FAT, then a couple of free utilities come with FreeBSD that might work (I haven't tried them), but if it is NTFS, then they will not work and you will need to get something else. Partition Magic 7.0 will work fine, but I don't know where you would get a copy nowdays. There is another utility out there called 'Partition Commander' I haven't used it, but might, after I get my PM 8.0 mess cleared up. There are also some good Linux-based Live CD's that are essentiall Partition Magic clones, one is GParted Live CD and the other is Parted Magic. They are very small iso's that pretty much just have a small window manager and some sort of disk partitioning tool like parted. I have used them to partition disks with great success. I knew there were some others out there now, but haven't had time to go looking. The free ones that come with FreeBSD are OK too except they don't work with NTFS type slices and that is what you get with most new machines nowdays. If you want to keep that NTFS system, then you have to get a utility that will work with it. Thanks for the pointers, jerry Good luck! Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
