From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 24 08:57:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16480 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA16423 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 11358 invoked by uid 1003); 24 Aug 1998 15:55:38 -0000 Message-ID: <19980824175538.B8948@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:55:38 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Fran Maruca , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: WIN '98 and BSD References: <0D962991BD00D211A18900A0C9C8391A03ADC7@OMNIA_3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <0D962991BD00D211A18900A0C9C8391A03ADC7@OMNIA_3>; from Fran Maruca on Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 10:54:02AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have some PCs currently running win '98 and I'd like to also install > BSD. These machines have 64 meg. of memory, 4gig hard drives, and > Pentium II w/mmx. I'm looking for any and all information on how to do > this with the least amount of pain possible. I'm taking a look at the > multios.html but would welcome any further information/tips from anybody > that's done this before. This is pretty new territory for me and I'm > trying not to shoot myself in the foot. Your best bet, if you're willing to do it, is to scrap your current partitioning and stuff, and start from the beginning again; install win98, install your win98 programs, then install BSD, and things should go fine. This way you don't have to resize partitions, and so forth. Hope this helps. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message