From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 09:04:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA05969 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA05933 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03875; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607131543.LAA03875@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on win95 To: 106154.3334@compuserve.com Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:43:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <199607130531_MC1-68C-BC5A@compuserve.com> from "106154.3334@compuserve.com" at "Jul 13, 96 05:31:19 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 106154.3334@compuserve.com wrote... > Hi there, > I am preparing to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a win95 machine. I have used > FreBSD for a while on other machines running win3.1. I was just woundering > if any one had any information on problems/things to watch out for when > installing. > > Thanks, > Turlough. > No, nothing unusual. FreeBSD will be able to see the Win95 partition, as per a DOS partition, but you won't see long file names. If you have to re-install Win95 for any reason, it will overwrite the boot manager with its own boot sector. You can get around this by reloading booteasy. Good luck, John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key