Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:51:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hoping to install 2.2.5 3-way boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980515165040.2866F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980513155653.23709A-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > I am hoping to partition the 4gb drive in half and put FreeBSD 2.2.5 and > NT on each half, and once this is successful, remove the partition from > the first hard drive allowing Windows95 the full 2gb. > > That way I hope to have 3 operating systems each with 2gb of hard-drive > space. > > Does it matter which half of the second drive FreeBSD and NT get? Not particuarly, although this is highly dependent on whether your BIOS can boot operating systems out that far. > Does it matter which is installed first? I would install the MS OSs first since they have this nasty habit of blowing away the boot sector and thus booteasy. > Can I be confident that removing the partition on the first drive will > destroy the 2.2.2 data and not the Windows95 data? As confident as you feel with your keyboard :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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