From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 13:26:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F8715B72 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA06542; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:26:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38920993.BEB23191@math.udel.edu> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:26:43 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chameleon Cc: Bob Willcox , questions list Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win98 2nd ed coexistance? References: <3.0.32.20000128132146.014953f0@mail.wavefire.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm pretty sure that you can't install FreeBSD in extended (using the DOS world sense of the word) partitions. At least that's what's implied on page 34 of _The Complete FreeBSD_ (3rd Ed.). Chameleon wrote: > 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 -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message