From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 16:05:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA11979 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:05:22 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA11972 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:05:20 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA08146; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:55:27 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507272325.IAA08146@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Win95 and FreeBSD To: mkaylor@dna.metronet.com (Mike Kaylor) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:55:27 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Mike Kaylor" at Jul 27, 95 02:09:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1302 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Kaylor stands accused of saying: > > I have Win95 installed on sd0 and sd1. I want to install FreeBSD on sd2. > All are SCSI drives. It does the install fine, but it didn't install the > boot manager. There might have been a mistake on my part but Win95 has a > modified fat and I think that might be the problem. Not partilarly likely; FreeBSD doesn't really care about other disk partitions. > Can you please help me? I really would like to run FreeBSD on my home PC > but yet I don't want to give up the Win95 either. You're going to have to juggle your SCSI disks around; the problem you're seeing is that you can only boot from the first two disks, and the FreeBSD boot manager is on the third disk. I'd swap disks 2 and 3, and then install the boot manager on the first disk. (Grab the DOS boot-easy installer off the CDrom and do it with that) > Thanks, Mike Kaylor -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[