Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:22:33 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "JSMolinaro" <JSMolinaro@hotmail.com>, "FreeBSD" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MS Win / BSD Message-ID: <01c901c079da$a9887e20$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <OE10tvt4I9pTl4EnAv10000107f@hotmail.com>
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Well I'm no expert but I've installed FreeBSD at least a hundred times to date. I prefer to never use dual boot .... after all hard drives are quite cheap these days & those nifty little removable hard drive thingies make it extremely simple to change operating systems in a flash without needing to bother with the peculiarities of boot managers. However if you simply must run two or more different operating systems on one hard drive the order of installation is important. ie Win9x / ME first, then WinNT / 2000 will definitely get those both working, and if you install FreeBSD last (either booting the machine from the FreeBSD CD, or from the kern.flp & mfsroot.flp floppies) it should setup the FreeBSD boot manager so that you get the option to boot WinME / Win2000 / FreeBSD. As for the kern.flp & mfsroot.flp floppies ...... you did create those using something like "fdimage.exe kern.flp a:" & "fdimage mfsroot.flp" I hope ??....... your comment that you "zipped" something or other sounds a bit scarey :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "JSMolinaro" <JSMolinaro@hotmail.com> To: "FreeBSD" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: MS Win / BSD > I'm trying to get FreeBSD installed on my pc and I'm having trouble. I've > got a dual boot with MS Windows 2000 Professional and Windows ME. I also > got a partitioned disk, two hard drives with 2000 professional on one and > Win ME onl the other. > > I've got the cd and I've tried booting from it, my pc bios supports that but > I cannot get anywhere when I boot up in DOS and try to run INSTALL from the > cd, only VIEW works but then I am at a loss of what to do b/c most of the > files are .TXT with a few exceptions that don't seem to get any installation > process started. > > In addition, I have zipped the two files MFSROOT.FLP & KERN.FLP on floppies > but I am unsure on how to actually incorporate them into the boot process, > I've look at all the installation pages on the web site, I even have a > reference book to help but I am not understanding totally. > > I'm sorry It gets difficult with no experience, 4cd's and a book to help. > Thank you for your patience w/ me. > > Thank you, > > J.S.M. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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