From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 23:21:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27340 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27333 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA02113; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:21:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:21:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Andy Alexander cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problem In-Reply-To: <199708140418.AAA02889@chronos.cardina.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andy Alexander wrote: > i've been told there is a problem when trying to install FreeBSD after > you've install win95 with the boot sector. There is a problem the other way around, since installing Win95 blows away the boot sector. The solution is to install Win95 first. > i am looking for a way to get > around the 'syncing disks...' lock and am willing to do anything, even if > it takes wiping out win95 then installing BSD and perhaps w95 later.. any > info would be greatly appreciated. This is a hardware problem. What do you have for controllers & disks? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo