From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 13:16:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intrex.net (mail.intrex.net [209.42.192.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5585515BB9 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from molly.local.domain [209.42.232.56] by intrex.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A760A7C014C; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:17:20 -0500 Content-Length: 1739 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000128150245.A48685@luke.immure.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:15:13 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: Chris Browning From: Chris Browning To: Bob Willcox Subject: RE: FreeBSD & Win98 2nd ed coexistance? Cc: questions list Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No real dilemma. You need to have Win98 installed first. Win98 doesn't have a bootloader and doesn't understand multi-boot. The FreeBSD install will see Win98 and allow for it using its bootloader. Quick and easy, if Win98 is installed first. On 28-Jan-00 Bob Willcox wrote: > Hi All, > > I was hoping someone out there might have a quick answer (or even a > suggestion) to a delema I am having. I installed FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE > on my Dell Inspiron 7000 notebook as the first partition and I am now > attempting to install Windows 98 2nd Edition on the same 8GB disk as the > second partition (I have about split the partitions evenly at just under > 4GB each). > > Problem is that after Windows setup dutifully formats the 2nd partition > it then claims that the format had an error and is not compatible. I > have done this a couple of times so I'm quite certain that unless I come > up with some new approach there's no sense in trying it again. :-( > > I apologize for the slightly off-topic nature of this post, but I'm > much more of a FreeBSD/Unix person than Windows (which I avoid when > possible) so I naturally thought to ask here first (and I suspect that > if it wern't for FreeBSD already being on the disk the W98 install would > work). > > Thanks, > Bob > > -- > Bob Willcox Idleness is the holiday of fools. > bob@pmr.com -- Anonymous > Austin, TX > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- "if you believe in Nothing... ...Honey, It believes in you." Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com XFMail on FreeBSD 3.2 28-Jan-00 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message