From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 11:35:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07644 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tigger.jvnc.net (tigger.jvnc.net [128.121.50.145]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07636 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vikas ([202.54.15.69]) by tigger.jvnc.net with SMTP id AA12860 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@freebsd.org); Tue, 6 Aug 1996 14:35:10 -0400 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 7 Aug 96 00:02:26 +0600 From: "Vikas Aggarwal" Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 install experience To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VersaTerm Link v1.1.6 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just wanted to share my experience installing FreeBSD2.1 I was installing FreeBSD on a partition on a second hard disk in my PC which already had the Windows NT boot loader in the primary DOS disk. I used the 'view' program from within DOS to install FreeBSD. I tried installing FreeBSD without the boot floppy- the install process changed my boot blocks, but failed to boot and continue with the install (I forget the exact error message). I then proceeded to install the FreeBSD using a boot floppy (first I booted off a DOS floppy then created a FreeBSD boot floppy etc.). Well, I never really got back my NT loader. I chose NOT to install the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD (selecting instead to go into BSD when I insert the boot floppy). On rebooting the system, it hung with "non-system disk" error. I wasnt too much of a wiz with Windows NT, so didnt know how to just repair and get back my NT boot loader. Installed NT all over again, etc, etc. Might want to warn people or something. -vikas