Hello all,
First I would like to apologize for my poor English, I'm living in a non English speaking country, I hope I will be understandable. I'm going to install FreeBSD. I read many times the manual and many post in this forum and other on FreeBSD but I'm not really satisfied, probably my poor English. I need some help. Before starting installation, I prefer to ask you different questions, even they are basics and very low level in order to avoid any problems (Murphy laws) or troubles during installation. I have a Gigabyte H87MD3H motherboard which allow UEFI mode for boot, an option which allow UEFI and Legacy, or Legacy only. I have Windows 7 already installed with UEFI mode, could I boot and install FreeBSD in UEFI mode?
I have an SDD disk with a partition for Windows 7 and an empty partition of 60 Gbytes for FreeBSD, will it be enough?
I have also an hard drive of 500 Gbytes , empty dedicated to FreeBSD. Does the installation software allows mounting my two disks at the same time during the installation or, do I have to install FreeBSD first on the empty partition of my SDD, and then mount the hard drive after ? If you have any advice for a beginner even though I worked in the past with UNIX systems as DEC Alpha and HPUX, it was a long long long time ago, you will be welcome.
Thanks by advance.
Chat Noir
First I would like to apologize for my poor English, I'm living in a non English speaking country, I hope I will be understandable. I'm going to install FreeBSD. I read many times the manual and many post in this forum and other on FreeBSD but I'm not really satisfied, probably my poor English. I need some help. Before starting installation, I prefer to ask you different questions, even they are basics and very low level in order to avoid any problems (Murphy laws) or troubles during installation. I have a Gigabyte H87MD3H motherboard which allow UEFI mode for boot, an option which allow UEFI and Legacy, or Legacy only. I have Windows 7 already installed with UEFI mode, could I boot and install FreeBSD in UEFI mode?
I have an SDD disk with a partition for Windows 7 and an empty partition of 60 Gbytes for FreeBSD, will it be enough?
I have also an hard drive of 500 Gbytes , empty dedicated to FreeBSD. Does the installation software allows mounting my two disks at the same time during the installation or, do I have to install FreeBSD first on the empty partition of my SDD, and then mount the hard drive after ? If you have any advice for a beginner even though I worked in the past with UNIX systems as DEC Alpha and HPUX, it was a long long long time ago, you will be welcome.
Thanks by advance.
Chat Noir