From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 13:40:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from radius.wavefire.com (radius.workfire.net [139.142.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B36A15CBC for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swen@wavefire.com) Received: (qmail 1912 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2000 21:40:19 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO swen) (139.142.167.220) by radius.workfire.net with SMTP; 28 Jan 2000 21:40:19 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000128134102.0128b210@mail.wavefire.com> X-Sender: swen@mail.wavefire.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:41:02 -0800 To: Peter Schwenk From: Chameleon Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win98 2nd ed coexistance? Cc: Bob Willcox , questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:26 PM 1/28/00 -0500, Peter Schwenk wrote: >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.). > you're probable right... can't say as i've tried...:) i was meaning the unused space on the HD that wasn't partitioned for win98... but it didn't come out right... must take more drugs... > >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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, swen@wavefire.com but it hurt when I walked. Swen Kabis -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message