From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 19:51:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01680 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:51:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from diamond.xtalwind.net (diamond.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01673 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pa1dsp6.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.30]) by diamond.xtalwind.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA22989; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:50:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:50:46 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Bruce Evans cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-Reply-To: <199611250139.MAA11746@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > >Dedicating one drive, does not mean dedicating all drives, Microsoft's > >install procedures are known for there ``I want the whole world'' phylosophy > >and can cause people great pain if installed with on another disk in > >the same systems as one of the FreeBSD ``bogus'' partitioned disks. > > Surely this is only caused by a installer error? I haven't used W95, Some people have all the luck. :) BillyBob's monster will cheerfully disable any boot manager it finds, and poke it's grimey fingers into /every/ drive in the box. If you're ever forced to use it, or are suddenly overcome with masochism, be sure to install it first then add whatever OSs you want to run. And make sure you have current backups for the day when it pops up the window saying, "I'm sorry your system is totally hosed. Reinstall Windows and all your programs." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------