From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 23: 2: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5502337B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk ([158.152.54.180] helo=ppe.happygiraffe.net) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13iW0f-000Ezq-0C; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 06:02:02 +0000 Received: by ppe.happygiraffe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5378E37; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:59:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:59:07 +0100 To: Heredity Choice Cc: Dominic Mitchell , 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> References: <20001007201034.A39732@ppe.happygiraffe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from stork@QNET.COM on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:15:54PM -0700 X-Warning: Incoming message from The Big Giant Head! X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 X-Uptime: 1:55PM up 1 min, 4 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.04, 0.01 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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