Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:59:07 +0100 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) To: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM> Cc: Dominic Mitchell <dom@happygiraffe.net>, Andrew Boothman <0094187@sms.ed.ac.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win98 and FBSD Message-ID: <20001008135907.A369@ppe.happygiraffe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10010072303060.29126-100000@cello.qnet.com>; from stork@QNET.COM on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:15:54PM -0700 References: <20001007201034.A39732@ppe.happygiraffe.net> <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10010072303060.29126-100000@cello.qnet.com>
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:15:54PM -0700, Heredity Choice wrote: > I have never installed WIN98 but have lots of experience with another > primitive M$ OS, MS-DOS. DOS wants to grab all the drive it can. I prevent > this by first using FDISK from a DOS boot floppy to create, format, and > mark bootable a partition the size I want it to be. I then install DOS > before anything else, because DOS is likely to format any other partitions > it finds. > > One could presumably use a DOS boot floppy with FDISK to create a > partition for WIN98, but formatting will have to be done from the WIN98 > install. For a Win98 install, you'll need to use the Win98 fdisk. I don't think that any of the other fdisk's from previous versions of DOS allow you to create a FAT32 partition, which you'll need to be able to get a honking big C: drive, as opposed to several 2Gb partitions. -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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