Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 10:38:11 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: rwiggins@mitre.org (Rita Wiggins) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freeBSD Message-ID: <199603070938.KAA20127@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <313DEE93.58A8@mitre.org>
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> > i tried to install freeBSD on my computer(Pentium 100), but it > apparently departitioned to hard drive and im currently trying > to recover it. How do you install freeBSD and still keep the partitions > so that DOS/Windows 95 (and the rest of the hard drive) are still > functionable? I assume you were installing FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. Could you describe your disk configuration a bit? THere is one caveat with 2.1: When you are installing on a disk 1 it may mess your disk 0. When you want to install it on disk 0 you should fdisk disk 0 such there is enough free space for a FreeBSD partition. There is also a tool, FIPS.EXE in the CD's tools directory which allows you to shrink an existing DOS partition (this method is not guaranteed but it works in 99% of all cases). Then boot the install floppy, Express install is a good choice unless you want to do something special. Partition and Label the FreeBSD portion and go ahead installing. Not that you can remove a FreeBSD boot loader from the master boot record with the DOS FDISK/MBR command. And also note that a Win95 installation clobbers the MBR (FreeBSD primary boot sector). > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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