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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:49:45 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        rob <europax@home.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: reinstall of Win98 over FreeBSD, catastrophe?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001011104945.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <39E2150A.9068467D@home.com>

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On 09-Oct-00 rob wrote:
>  My Win98 on my laptop is totally hosed.  But I have my prized FreeBSD on
>  a second partition.  If I reinstall Win98, will it format my entire HD? 
>  I can't seem to find the answer in archives or manuals, but I know I
>  have seen this question before.

If you install Windows by creating a DOS boot disk with a CDROM driver and
putting your W98 CD in the drive, and run setup from itm you should be fine.

If however you have a manufacturer created 'fix my computer CD' I wouldn't
recommend you use it, as it probably will reformat the drive :-/

If you have the former, put fdisk, format and the CDROm driver on the MSDOS
disk and put the CDROM driver in CONFIG.SYS (I assume you know what I mean here
:) and put the CD in the drive. Format the DOS partition. After thats done, cd
onto the CDROM and then into the Win98 directory and run setup.exe

If by 'totally hosed' you mean the disk is corrupt, or some other problem where
the filesystem isn't readable then you may be SOL but if that is the case tell
me and I will see if I can help you off the list..

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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