freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 82, Issue 3

[Lloyd Hayes]

Simply install Red Hat (or Fedora). The loader gives you the option of 
removing the various partitions, and assigning where you want Red Hat 
installed. It will also install the "Grub" Boot Manager if you allow it to.

Lloyd Hayes

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>   1. Uninstalling FreeBSD (Danny Browne)
>   2. Re: Uninstalling FreeBSD (Konrad Heuer)
>   3. RE: php4-cli or mod_php4 (Olaf Greve)
>   4. Re: firefox port fails to build. (Dev Tugnait)
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>  11. RE: php4-cli or mod_php4 (Olaf Greve)
>  12. Error updating mpeg4ip (Alan Curtis)
>  13. failing disk on vinum raid1? (martin hudec)
>  14. Shutdown my pc (Guillaume R.)
>  15.
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>  16. SSL Certificate generation for vsftpd on FreeBSD 5.3
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>  18. Re: drive bootable check? (Lowell Gilbert)
>  19. net.inet.ip ? (Frank Bonnet)
>  20. vpnc and vnc question (Tom Connolly)
>  21. Fixed my WRITE_DMA problems by removing vinum (Kirk Strauser)
>  22. 	Re: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN (Bullet
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>  23. 	Re: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN (Bullet
>      dodged) (Lowell Gilbert)
>  24. 	Re: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN (Bullet
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>  25. Restoring by filenumber (Mike Rodgers)
>  26. Re: net.inet.ip ? (Lowell Gilbert)
>  27. make index broken? (Kevin A. Pieckiel)
>  28. question on portupgrade and FreeBSD branches (rain cip)
>  29. Re: Shutdown my pc (Donald J. O'Neill)
>  30. sendmail smtp-auth (tethys ocean)
>  31. Re: arplookup (Dmitry Ivanov)
>  32. Re: Error updating mpeg4ip (Kris Kennaway)
>  33. Dell Precision Workstation 470n (Ray Seals)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:24:38 +0000
>From: "Danny Browne" <danny_browne at eircom.net>
>Subject: Uninstalling FreeBSD
>To: "BSD User Group Ireland" <bugi at lists.redbrick.dcu.ie>,	"FreeBSD
>	Mailing List" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Message-ID: <20041206122439.94FFB43D5F at mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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>Im in a rush to get this done, but i dont really know how.
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>My laptop dual boots winXP and FreeBSD.
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>However i now need to install Red Hat for a project im doing in college. so i want to get rid of my BSD installation to free up some space. and im in a major rush. i dont really have the time to spend on figuring it out and the BSD manual hasn't helped. 
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>Can i just wipe my BSD installation by formatting the partiton with partition-magic in windows?
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>what effect does the BSD boot manager have on my xp installation? has it deleted my xp boot loader? if how do rectify this?
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:43:02 +0100 (CET)
>From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2 at gwdg.de>
>Subject: Re: Uninstalling FreeBSD
>To: Danny Browne <danny_browne at eircom.net>
>Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Message-ID: <20041206133521.C3948 at gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Danny Browne wrote:
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>>Im in a rush to get this done, but i dont really know how.
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>>My laptop dual boots winXP and FreeBSD.
>>
>>However i now need to install Red Hat for a project im doing in college.
>>so i want to get rid of my BSD installation to free up some space. and
>>im in a major rush. i dont really have the time to spend on figuring it
>>out and the BSD manual hasn't helped.
>>
>>Can i just wipe my BSD installation by formatting the partiton with
>>partition-magic in windows?
>>    
>>
>
>I'm no expert in installing Dead Rat Linux :-), but I guess you will be
>able to simply delete the FreeBSD slice and to reallocate the disk space
>for a linux partition during the installation process.
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>>what effect does the BSD boot manager have on my xp installation? has it
>>deleted my xp boot loader? if how do rectify this?
>>    
>>
>
>The FreeBSD boot manager will stay in place as long as you install lilo
>into the Linux root partition. You may still use it to choose between
>booting XP or Linux. If you don't want it, install lilo into the master
>boot record.
>
>You XP boot loader code has neither been hurt by FreeBSD nor will it be
>hurt by Linux.
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>Regards
>
>Konrad Heuer
>GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2 at gwdg.de
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