From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 27 13:07:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CF837B401 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpls-qmqp-04.inet.qwest.net (mpls-qmqp-04.inet.qwest.net [63.231.195.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 982C843F3F for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:07:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolfryder@qwest.net) Received: (qmail 92117 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 2003 20:07:38 -0000 Received: from mpls-pop-04.inet.qwest.net (63.231.195.4) by mpls-qmqp-04.inet.qwest.net with QMQP; 27 Apr 2003 20:07:38 -0000 Received: from adsl189.omah.uswest.net (HELO wolf.qwest.net) (209.180.104.189) by mpls-pop-04.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 27 Apr 2003 20:07:37 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:13:50 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030427150707.00ab6700@pop.omah.uswest.net> From: "WolfRyder" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Sender: wolfryder@pop.omah.uswest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: dual-boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:07:39 -0000 I was able to successfully install FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop (Presario 1600) last night. Unfortunately, my Win98 isn't happy sharing, even though I gave it most of the disk space on the 30 gig hard drive. lol! I have to learn how to be quicker in making the windows bootup screen not show up (it covers the selection of dos/bsd.) I got totally frustrated last night and ended up turning off the darned thing when I rebooted about 6 times and it still insisted on booting into windows. The first few reboots weren't any trouble (initializing the wireless network card took a few attempts and I still haven't gotten it right. Got a number/letter wrong somewhere, I'm sure) but after about the 4th try, it just starting booting into windows even when I pressed the F2 key. I'll mess with it tonight, figure out what's going one ;) carol