From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 5:12:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810C837B739 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:12:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8 (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id FAA14744; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:12:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:09:07 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad iSeries 1200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 it looks like andrew@ugh.net.au composed: andrew->Hi, andrew-> andrew->I'm trying to install FreeBSD on an IBM ThinkPad iSeries 1200. I want to andrew->get it to dual boot Windows98. The machine was originally purchased in andrew->Japan, it doesn't seem to be sold elsewhere. andrew-> andrew->FreeBSD installs fine but windows (from the IBM CD that comes with the andrew->laptop) refuses to install unless the disk has just one FAT partition (ie andrew->delete FreeBSD) - otherwise the installer has an invalid path error 99. andrew-> andrew->Is there a way around this? andrew-> .......... yes, my new Toshiba Satellite 1715xcds has the same install CD for windowsME. I installed windwosME, went in and "scandisk/defragged" the harddrive, grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down the used space after the "scandisk/defragged", figured in some additional space for possible future windows applications and resized the partition using FIPS. I then installed both Linux and FreeBSD and ended up with 4 (four) primary partitions and use Linux's LILO to boot everything. (Linux's View) /dev/hda1 = windows /dev/hda2 = Linux Swap /dev/hda3 = Linux / (root) /dev/hda4 = FreeBSD -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message