From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 10:10:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDBCB37B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BFF4328E; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69051328D; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:33:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Kerry Davis Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place In-Reply-To: <0c4301c0340b$e6430390$0200000a@system> 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 > Can someone explain to me why the FreeBSD 4.1 install doesn't work properly > if I already have a DOS partition in place? I just did the same thing last night to test. You have to do the good ol' fdisk /mbr from a DOS boot disk. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message