From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 13:59:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F90515AA8 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mw@theatre.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id WAA21026 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 22:59:06 +0100 (CET) Received: (from mw@localhost) by theatre.lan (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA37633 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 22:56:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mw) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 22:55:41 +0100 From: Martin Welk To: questions list Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win98 2nd ed coexistance? Message-ID: <20000128225541.A36577@theatre.lan> References: <20000128150245.A48685@luke.immure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000128150245.A48685@luke.immure.com>; from bob@luke.immure.com on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 03:02:45PM -0600 Organization: Private UUCP/Usenet site. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 03:02:45PM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote: > 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 had no such difficulties when installing Windows 98 besides FreeBSD, but it was a desktop machine with a SCSI disk. As Windows 98 overrides the master boot records (which usually holds the BOOTEASY boot manager coming with FreeBSD), it is always recommended to install Windows after FreeBSD. Perhaps you should try it this way? (And if there is something wrong with your disk, I would guess, FreeBSD will tell you more than Windows :-) ) Regards, Martin -- ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, if there aren't you can make them, make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message