From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 10: 3:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539DD150EE for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02599; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 03:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:21:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jon Wynacht Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Windows 98 In-Reply-To: <000601bef7be$e39fcc20$aada46ab@jwynacht.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Jon Wynacht wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD on my Win98 laptop. I have plenty of speed and > memory but I was wondering if you all had tips or insights on this? > Specifically: > > 1. I was told I could boot the CD on startup but haven't been able to do > that. Any ideas? you can try making a boot floppy, then picking the CDrom as the install media later in the install: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html look at step "4". > > 2. Do I have to use Partition Magic or some other utility to create a new > partition? Not a bad idea, FreeBSD does a seperate _primary_ partition to reside in. good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message