Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:21:46 -0800 From: Chameleon <swen@wavefire.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win98 2nd ed coexistance? Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000128132146.014953f0@mail.wavefire.com>
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At 03:02 PM 1/28/00 -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I was hoping someone out there might have a quick answer (or even a
>suggestion) to a delema I am having. I installed FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE
>on my Dell Inspiron 7000 notebook as the first partition and I am now
>attempting to install Windows 98 2nd Edition on the same 8GB disk as the
>second partition (I have about split the partitions evenly at just under
>4GB each).
>
>Problem is that after Windows setup dutifully formats the 2nd partition
>it then claims that the format had an error and is not compatible. I
>have done this a couple of times so I'm quite certain that unless I come
>up with some new approach there's no sense in trying it again. :-(
>
>I apologize for the slightly off-topic nature of this post, but I'm
>much more of a FreeBSD/Unix person than Windows (which I avoid when
>possible) so I naturally thought to ask here first (and I suspect that
>if it wern't for FreeBSD already being on the disk the W98 install would
>work).
>
actually... it doesn't matter that FreeBSD is on it...
The problem is that FreeBSD is first on the HD...
If you put win98 on first (in the primary partition), then install BSD on the extended partition, vereything should work great...
Swen
>
>Thanks,
>Bob
>
>--
>Bob Willcox Idleness is the holiday of fools.
>bob@pmr.com -- Anonymous
>Austin, TX
>
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<bold>Windows 98</bold>: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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