From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 23:17: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx-a.qnet.com (mx-a.qnet.com [209.221.198.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04F437B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cello.qnet.com (stork@cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by mx-a.qnet.com (8.9.1a/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA12794; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (stork@localhost) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA12693; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cello.qnet.com: stork owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Heredity Choice To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Andrew Boothman <0094187@sms.ed.ac.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win98 and FBSD In-Reply-To: <20001007201034.A39732@ppe.happygiraffe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Paul Smith stork@qnet.com > [1] Be careful, the default options for win98 install doesn't always > give you a chance to partition your hard drive before proceeding with > the install. It just assumes you want to use the whole hard disk... > There is a way out of it, though. Wish I could remember how. Probably > by pressing F5 or F8 when the win98 setup disk boots, actually. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message