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James Johnson wrote:
> 
> I am not quite sure how I would go about using a dos partition,
> but then again I'm not quite sure if it is needed.  I have two
> physical drives.  C contains dos/windows95.  I would like for D
> to contain FreeBSD, and use boot manager on start up.  Can I just
> install FreeBSD to D, and use boot manager?  Would a dos partition
> be needed?  I am not really sure what a dos partition is, so
> please explain this.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Jimmy Johnson

You need a DOS partition only where you want to store DOS files.
However, it is a good idea to have a DOS partition on a disk you're
going to install FreeBSD onto, and delete it while installing, replacing
it with a FreeBSD partition. It seems that the installation program,
like any good hacker, is especially good in learning by example (a.k.a.
cut-and-paste), so sometimes it finds it easiers to figure out how to
cerate a FreeBSD partition if there is already a DOS partition on the
disk.

You *can* install FreeBSD on the seconds disk and use the boot manager
to boot it or dos/windows95. Note that the installation program has a
tendency to install the boot manager on the wrong disk, so you might
have to install it manually by running \tools\bootinst.exe from DOS
(won't work from Win95).

Good luck,
Nadav