From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 12:53:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28632 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05553; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:51:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Denis Z." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: first-time install In-Reply-To: <35BB6207.9357C6CE@techinter.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Denis Z. wrote: > O.k I figured out how to get the file to my floppy and boot but am still > un-clear how to install onto my machine with-out harming my current o.s. > > this is what i want to do but not real sure how to: > I have win95 on my c: drive and would like to install freebsd onto a > portion of my d: or e:(since my second drive gets spit-up)drive allowing > at start-up to choose between the 2 systems.If any-one could explain how > to accomplish this that would be great. You can't install FreeBSD to a DOS drive; it requires it's own slice type. Use FIPS to split one of your drives up. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/ for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message