Installing FreeBSD 4.5 in a laptop

[Alexandro Dario Pestana]

if i want to install Freebsd 4.5 in my notebook it must be the last OS
installed ? it has something like LILO for select between Winxp , Win Me and
FreeBSD 4.5 ?? is it easy to setup ? how many partitions i need for
install it ? its like redhat linux 7.3 ?

Thanks;

Alexandro Dario Pestana

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[Lowell Gilbert]

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here.
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...

"Alexandro Dario Pestana" <wp...@hotmail.com> writes:

> if i want to install Freebsd 4.5 in my notebook it must be the last OS
> installed ?

No, but that's often a good idea: Windows installations will leave
themselves as the only bootable partitions.

> it has something like LILO for select between Winxp , Win Me and
> FreeBSD 4.5 ??

It has a boot manager available in the installation process, yes.
There are a variety of more flexible boot managers available after
installation, but those don't fit into the boot sector itself.

> is it easy to setup ?

Matter of opinion. I don't think it's particularly easy, but I
consider both Windows ME and Red Hat Linux to be *more* difficult.

> how many partitions i need for
> install it ?

One primary (DOS style) partition ("slice," in BSD terminology).

> its like redhat linux 7.3 ?

Compared to Windows, it's a lot like Red Hat Linux. Compared to, say,
Solaris, it's quite different from Red Hat Linux.

Good luck.