From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 21:38:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05028 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from engulf.net (engulf.com [207.96.124.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05021 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandon@engulf.net) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by engulf.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA18475; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:40:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:40:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Brandon Lockhart To: Frank Pawlak cc: bsalle , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am unfortunitly a Windows User In-Reply-To: <980725023407.ZM727@darkstar.connect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I think that the answer provided below is a bit harsh. I have installed :FreeBSD on a machine with both Windows NT/95 installed an have not had any :problems trashing the hard drive. It was meant to show the ignorance of some people, the people who can't sit down for five minutes and read a short little man page or readme off of the web. :Firstly, a product like Partition Magic can easily create the necessary :partition for FreeBSD. Yes your drive must have a partition for FreeBSD, and :Partition Magic is a good way to do it. Sure enough. :Secondly, the FreeBSD boot manager will allow you to dual boot FreeBSD and :Windows NT/95. Uhh huh. :Read the related information an the FreeBSD web page under documentation and if :you have further questions, post them to this mailing list. If you can get a :copy of The Complete FreeBSD all the information you need to do this install is :contained in it in an easy reading format. This book is worth its' weight in :gold. Hence, that is basically what I had said. (See Below) :> Yes, installing FreeBSD will completely kill your hard drive. This has :> happened many times. Once this happens, your hard drive is rendered :> useless. In order to fix it, you must go to: :> :> http://www.freebsd.org/ :> :> and read the manuals and the install guide. Good luck! ,-----------------------------------------------------------------. | //// "Anything I say represents only my opinion." | | (o o) / | | ,---ooO--(_)--Ooo---------------------------------------------, | | | BRANDON LOCKHART | | | `-------------------------------------------------------------' | | brandon.lockhart@usinternetworking.com brandon@engulf.net | | Work: (410) 897-4551 Pager: (888) xxx-xxxx | `-----------------------------------------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message