From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 12:27:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA27360 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27353 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA10602 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:26:46 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ai07439; 11 Jul 96 20:25 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa22181; 11 Jul 96 18:10 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00951; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:03:37 GMT Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:03:37 GMT Message-Id: <199607111003.KAA00951@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: thankhuu@cco.caltech.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Thanh Khuu on Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:07:42 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: installation problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am trying to install FreeBSD under Windows95 and so far have been > unsuccessful. It reboots, but then goes into the 95 boot sequence > instead. Is there something that I should know? Oh by the way, I am > trying to use a totally separate hard drive for FreeBSD instead of a > partition on C:, should I do something different for this? Apparently there was a bug in the 2.1.0 installation program, which installed a boot manager to allow you to choose which system to boot, but put it on the wrong disk... Anyway, it's easy to install it yourself. Just reboot into DOS and run the bootinst.exe program from the tools directory on the CD. If you don't have the CD, grab bootinst.exe and boot.bin from the FTP site (using binary mode, of course), and do likewise. You'll need to reboot into DOS, rather than start a DOS session within Win95, as I'm told Win95 doesn't handle writing directly to disks properly (I don't have Win95). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/