Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:49:29 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611250449.UAA01441@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.95.961124222439.2001B-100000@localhost> from jack at "Nov 24, 96 10:50:46 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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. Oh yeah, I forgot about that nicety too, yep folks, thats write, Win95 ``setup.exe'' will gladly rewrite your MBR with Microsloughts standard boot code on physcial drive 0x80 no matter what you are installing to. Really pissed me off the first time I did an install on sd2 and it politly smashed MS MBR over the top of my painstakinly setup OS/2 boot manager... > 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." And now you know why I have a WIN95/SR2 administative install area on my Novell file server... this _IS_ a regular event when you screw around with as much hardware as we do. It makes this event almost bearable :-) :-) Now if I could just get RPL to boot a box into Win95 diskless, that would make it really easy and I could stop using the older Netware VLM kit under MS DOS 6.22... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199611250449.UAA01441>