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From: Richard Linane <Typh0on@concentric.net>
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Richard Linane wrote:
> 
> RGireyev@bellind.com wrote:
> >
> > Richard I am a bit confused as to what are you trying
> > to do. Are you trying to install FreeBSD onto a
> > different drive than where Win95 lives or the same?
> >
> > Just a couple of weeks or so ago I have successfully
> > installed FreeBSD 2.1.7 onto my machine. I have
> > a 5x86 120Mhz processor a single 850 MB HD and 16M
> > or RAM.
> >
> > First I used fips to create a second DOS partition
> > thereby keeping 500M for Win95 and allocating 300M
> > to my FreeBSD.
> >
> > Then I rebooted with FreeBSD floppy in and in the
> > installation utility deleted the just created DOS
> > partition and replaced it with the FreeBSD one.
> > I made the mistake of not having the FreeBSD
> > in my root (or C:) directory at first but once
> > I fixed that everything proceeded nicely.
> >
> > I never had to delete Win95
> > just compress the hard drive.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I had bee trying to install FreeBSD onto a second hard drive
> 
> >>trying to be neat I guess :O) << with no luck...
> 
> I had a missunderstood the installation process referring to the
> directions written by Jay Richmond I had found at Wallnut Creeks
> Website.
> 
> http://www.in.net/~jayrich/doc/multios3.html#3
> 
> I thought that the installation of freeBSD had been on the second hard
> drive
> (referring to  section 3. A Typical Installation)
> 
> After reading this page again it seems that he was installing W95, Linux
> and FreeBSD on the same (the 1st) hard disk with the Boot Easy Boot
> Manager.
> Duhhh!  :O)
> 
> It looks like I've caused myself alot of unneeded frustration.  :O)
> 
> Had I read twice and Installed once.  I'd probaly be exploreing shell
> scripts as we speek.
> 
> I appriciate your reply,
> 
> Sincerly,
> Rich Linane
> 
> Typh0on@concentric.net