From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 7:35:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.1729.net (1729.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C7037B429 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 07:35:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnold (arnold.lan [192.168.1.8]) by marvin.1729.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with SMTP id RAA22100; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:07:25 +0100 Message-ID: <002601c16ac6$55722f60$0801a8c0@lan.1729.net> From: "BSDJunk" To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "Eoaianeee Na?aae" Cc: "FBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: PROBLEM WITH WIN98+FREEBSD Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:34:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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