From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 13: 0:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E79814F8B for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:00:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990330210209.JFMC5470601.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:02:09 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Chris Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:00:30 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19990330125143.007a3480@ogden.sd27.bc.ca> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990330210209.JFMC5470601.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 Mar 99, at 12:51, Chris wrote: > I have a question regarding the installation of FreeBSD in regards to > current operating systems. I wish to install FreeBSD on the machine that I > am currently using at home but it already has Windows 98 installed on it. > The drive is a FAT 32 formatted 8 gig hard drive with no other partitions. > Is there a way that I can install FreeBSD without disrupting the windows 98 > system that I have running now or will I have to fdisk it, create two > partions and start from scratch? > Any info on the subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I did just what you are about to do, only with Windows 95. You can do it without distrupting Windows 98. No fdisk necessary. But you will have to create two partitions. I used a FreeBSD supplied tool fips.exe which worked very well. See the following URL for details on what I did. http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/dual.htm Hope that helps. Tell us if it doesn't. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message