From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 14:16:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CE937B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:16:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD0A43E4A for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gA7MGwAQ006826; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:16:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 63.104.35.130 (proxying for 164.5.45.35) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by samaria.polands.org with HTTP; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:16:52 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <38601.63.104.35.130.1036707412.squirrel@samaria.polands.org> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:16:52 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <20021107213346.77870.qmail@web14501.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021107213346.77870.qmail@web14501.mail.yahoo.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Natalie Behm said: > Having gone over and over and over and over the > handbook and installation guides, I have determined > that the installation of FreeBSD just does NOT work > for me. Perhaps it is because I'm not a programmer, > perhaps it's because I'm a complete moron (as I'm sure > anyone reading this will make a comment on), but it > simply does not work for me, does not match my needs, > etc. > > What I'm needing to know, though, is whether I can > simply stick my Windows 98 disk in and it will > complete remove and replace FreeBSD, or is there > something else needed to complete the task of removing > this completely user-UNfriendly operating system and > replacing it with something that we commonplace morons > can use? > Too bad FreeBSD didn't work for you. You might want to play with OS X for a gentler introduction to Unix. Simply buy a Macintosh, plug it in, and you're running Unix. I've been using it on an iMac for a year and quite enjoy it. I'm not entirely sure if Windows 98 setup will remove non-DOS partitions automatically. To Windows, that's how the FreeBSD portion of the disk will look. You may have to execute fdisk.exe from a DOS command line and follow the menu to re-partition your harddrive. I do know that the Windows 2000 and XP install CD's show your drive partitioning and you have the choice of deleting non-DOS partitions. I'd recommend going with 2000 or XP before 98. Windows 98 is still just 16-bit DOS with a GUI and it is really showing it's age (over 5 years old). -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message