From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 13:16:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00160 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29963 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.04 #7) id 0zO5hp-0003sA-00; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:45:05 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:45:05 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: William Schweder , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd Message-ID: <19980929204505.A14840@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <001201bdeb3e$494face0$62420218@cc185674-a.strhg1.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <001201bdeb3e$494face0$62420218@cc185674-a.strhg1.home.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Schweder wrote: > I want to install freebsd on my win98 machine ive already downloaded it from > your ftp i have my partion split into a fat 32 and a fat 16 partition now > ive copied free bsd to the fat16 partion and im ready to install from msdos > but im afraid ill ruin my win 98 (fat32) partion if i do > > please explain what i shold do im running partition magic so i can set the > fat 16 to active or primary at any time Buy a proper keyboard first, which has - an apostrophe key - a shift key - a full stop key - a comma key (may not be needed, but they're quite useful I find) I see you managed to find the brackets. Then, explain why losing win98 would be a bad thing. Serious answer at last, I had win95 on here :-( when I installed FreeBSD, and it worked fine. Since Micro$crew are such tossers, I suspect win98 is identical to win95 but with a new name and a few more bugs thrown in, so it may work from there too. (You'll have to drop down to DOS first though.) Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by having a partition split into 2 partitions? Do you have two partitions within an extended partition? I'm not sure whether FreeBSD can be installed within an extended partition or not, so you may have to do better than that. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message