Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:36:15 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: Sharif Islam <mislam@students.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Message-ID: <199907150806.RAA04891@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907141334300.16039-100000@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu> from Sharif Islam at "Jul 14, 1999 01:35:19 pm"
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> I tried to install BSd in my Pc, which has windows 95 in it. I have > already partitiioned disk. I was trying to install it on C: drive. > I made two floppies kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. I boot then as instructed. > Then I went to novice install. I think here I did something wrong. After > installing when it was rebooting, It gives a promprt boot:.and it i type > there something its not working. Before that no booting option cmoes up, > it just say f1 default bsd. I cudn't get into windows. Please help , > thanks. > > I think for some of the option in installing i didn't do right. So it > might have erased my Windows.thanks I doubt Windows has been erased. Its more likely that you've simply installed a master boot record that boots directly into FreeBSD rather than a boot manager. Either install again and make sure you install a boot manager or just try installing on by hand from the cdrom -- you can find some in the tools directory. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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