From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 14:12:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28859 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28705 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00312; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:13:53 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA06344; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:13:42 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:13:41 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Luiz Lins cc: djv@bedford.net, Daniel Wood , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Boot In-Reply-To: <35855895.B0B2AB37@vecom.com.br> 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 On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Luiz Lins wrote: > CyberPeasant wrote: > > > > Daniel Wood wrote: > > > Is there a way that my PC can be sit up to boot either BSD or Dos > > > > Yes. > > > > > Without any major reformating of the drives. > > > > No. FBSD will want its own partition, I believe. > It's highly recommended FBSD partition, but you can install it in a FAT > (DOS) partition. That's not correct. You can install *FROM* a FAT partition, but FreeBSD requires it's own partition. When you've installed FreeBSD, fdisk (DOS) will report the partition type as `unknown'. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message