From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 05:56:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 05:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from serv.unibest.ru (serv.unibest.ru [194.87.33.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA23474 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 05:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hole.etrust.ru!unibest.ru!osa) Received: (qmail 24906 invoked from network); 6 Mar 1998 13:55:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hole.etrust.ru) (200.1.6.2) by serv.unibest.ru with SMTP; 6 Mar 1998 13:55:44 -0000 Received: from localhost by hole.etrust.ru with ESMTP id QAA09640; (8.8.8/vak/1.9) Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:57:07 +0300 (MSK) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:57:07 +0300 (MSK) From: Ozz!!! X-Sender: osa@hole.etrust.ru To: Pablo Quintana cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Cannot install DOS on an EX-FreeBSD PC! In-Reply-To: <01BD48D4.94D81E20@spsgestion.hondutel.hn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Pablo Quintana wrote: > Hi, I tried FreeBSD on a 486-33MHz, 8MB RAM, 258MB HDD, but I lacked HDD for the programs I rather to install. So I´m trying to put DOS back on it, of course, deleting first the non-DOS partition and creating a new active DOS partition on the whole drive. This goes well, then reboot the PC (with the floppy inserted) and format c: with the /s switch to transfer the system files, and all is going great. But when I reboot again without the floppy the prompt puts a message like: > > Not a bootable partition > > Did FreeBSD exclusively format my HDD for itself for ever? > Some ideas on this? > > Please help, I´m in a hurry to put to work this PC again, my boss wasn´t too much happy with the idea of FreeBSD and now HE wants DOS again. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > maybe is DOS command prompt : fdisk /mbr ?????? Rgdz, Ozz, osa@unibest.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message