From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 15 1: 7:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E559F15520 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA04891; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:36:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199907150806.RAA04891@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problem In-Reply-To: from Sharif Islam at "Jul 14, 1999 01:35:19 pm" To: Sharif Islam Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:36:15 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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