From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 2 15:11:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53796151C7 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:11:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05833; Mon, 3 May 1999 10:06:02 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:06:02 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Phil Jourdan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install doubts In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990502162822.009fd140@mail.quik.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, 2 May 1999, Phil Jourdan wrote: > My fear is that if I install FBSD on a free partition (disk is 6.4 Gb > partitioned in FAT disks of 500 Mb and one NTFS of 3 Gb) the FBSD boot > manager will overwrite the C: (FAT) boot sector and I will have to > reinstall the two Windows systems. Are my fears justified? > Could you please clarify? > Thank you in advance, The installation process will prompt you whether you want to install a Boot-Manager. You should then choose the options that says in effect: "No. Leave it alone" Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message