From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 20:50:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA04177 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA04171 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01441; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:49:29 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199611250449.UAA01441@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-Reply-To: from jack at "Nov 24, 96 10:50:46 pm" To: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net (jack) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:49:29 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. 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