Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:34:20 +0100 From: "BSDJunk" <BSDJunk@bzerk.org> To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "Eoaianeee Na?aae" <main@bestJob.ru> Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PROBLEM WITH WIN98+FREEBSD Message-ID: <002601c16ac6$55722f60$0801a8c0@lan.1729.net> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEFJCGAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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> Sergey I just finished doing the same thing as you. > > 1. First and most important. Backup up your Win98 system to another hard drive and remove it from the PC for safe keeping. FreeBDS will most likely trash the hard drive you are installing it on, so keep the backup hard drive safe so you can restore it back on to the PC after FBSD in installed. Not sure about "FreeBDS", but I know for a fact that FreeBSD doesn't "trash" hard drives. People do sometimes. > 4. The FBSD sysinstall is not very smart and will destroy your hard drive partitions some times. Do not be upset if this happens because you still have your Backup to recover from. I use ghost to bkup my hard drive partitions. It works great for all Winxx systems. If you mean by not very smart that it doesn't try to find out what you >really< want it to do I agree. It doesn't. Instead, it does exactly what you ask it to do. If you ask it to destroy your partition table by overwriting it, it does. > 5. You may have to cycle through the FBSD sysinstall process a few times until you see how it works. This is normal. Nobody gets it right on the first try. In that case, I know a lot of nobodies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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