Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:12:18 -0500 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win98 2nd ed coexistance? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000128170517.03381150@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <389208C0.51D2D256@math.udel.edu> References: <XFMail.000128161513.brownicm@prokyon.com>
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This isn't entirely correct. DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95 needed to boot from the first partition on the drive, but Windows 98 has the ability to boot from any primary partition. I'm not sure about whether this works with Windows 98 in an extended partition though. Nevertheless, the easiest scenario is usually to install Windows first and near the front of the drive. At 04:23 PM 1/28/00 , Peter Schwenk wrote: >Just to add to the previous answer... Windows needs to boot from the first >partition of the first disk, unless you are using a fancy bootmanager, >like the >one that comes with Partition Magic (commercial software). I don't even think >that Windows will install in anything other than the first partition of the >first disk. In other words, your existing install of FreeBSD will need to be >overwritten. > >Chris Browning wrote: > > > No real dilemma. You need to have Win98 installed first. Win98 doesn't > have a > > bootloader and doesn't understand multi-boot. The FreeBSD install will see > > Win98 and allow for it using its bootloader. Quick and easy, if Win98 is > > installed first. > > > > On 28-Jan-00 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). > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Bob > > > > > > -- > > > Bob Willcox Idleness is the holiday of fools. > > > bob@pmr.com -- Anonymous > > > Austin, TX > > > > ---------------------------------- > > "if you believe in Nothing... > > ...Honey, It believes in you." > > > > Chris Browning > > brownicm@prokyon.com > > XFMail on FreeBSD 3.2 28-Jan-00 > > ---------------------------------- > > > >-- >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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