From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 04:30:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA01511 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:18:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA01443 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id WAA21688 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:52:57 -0800 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00293; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:11:34 -0800 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:11:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Rita Wiggins cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD In-Reply-To: <313DEE93.58A8@mitre.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Rita Wiggins wrote: > i tried to install freeBSD on my computer(Pentium 100), but it > apparently departitioned to hard drive and im currently trying > to recover it. How do you install freeBSD and still keep the partitions > so that DOS/Windows 95 (and the rest of the hard drive) are still > functionable? Use the partition editor to create a new partition for FreeBSD WITHOUT deleting the ones that are there. Assuming you aren't using up your 4 slices, it should work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major