newbie freebsd installation

hi,

I'm starting out on freebsd and coming from a brief time from RH linux. I got a 4.5 STABLE ISO of freebsd but i'm not sure how should i install it. When partitioning my hd, is it different from linux?

Is there a installation guide that i can refer to perhaps?

thanks
edwin

>> Is there a installation guide that i can refer to perhaps?

Yep, go to www.freebsd.org .. Itself already got great handbook..

There is a readme.txt here that you might find useful!

Good luck

thanks, it's taking be a bit longer than i thougth though.

i'm trying to decide how to partition my HD, since each hd can only have 4 slices but each slice can have any number of logical drives.

I have 2 20Gb EIDE HDs, what is the best way to partition them?

this box will run, apache, php, firebird, qmail+imap, some sort of webmail, ftp, samba, maybe dns(do i need it even?)

and it'll be hooked up to my cable connection via dhcp.

how should i partition it?
any comments would be helpful..

thanks
edwin

>> thanks, it's taking be a bit longer than i thougth though.

No worry, when you learn more on BSD and you will find out it's much easier than Linux.. That's from my experience..

>> I have 2 20Gb EIDE HDs, what is the best way to partition them?

I don't know, never have done with two HDD but you can take the look at freebsd's good advice about partition at http://forums.devshed.com/showthrea...5110&forumid=31 .. Maybe, you can set /www for apache's docroot, /var/db for databases and /some/path for ftp in second HDD..