From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 0:22: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maskin.ettnet.se (maskin.oden.se [193.220.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CA815617 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 00:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tw@ettnet.se) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by maskin.ettnet.se (8.9.1a/8.8.8) id JAA01944; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:20:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.220.122.20), claiming to be "ettnet.se" via SMTP by maskin, id smtpdAAAa000UC; Mon May 3 09:20:51 1999 Message-ID: <372D3F6D.D1CFAF1@ettnet.se> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 08:17:17 +0200 From: Thomas Widlundh Reply-To: tw@ettnet.se X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Phil Jourdan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install doubts References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > My fear is that if I install FBSD on a free partition (disk is 6.4 Gb > > partitioned in FAT disks of 500 Mb and one NTFS of 3 Gb) the FBSD boot > > manager will overwrite the C: (FAT) boot sector and I will have to > > reinstall the two Windows systems. Are my fears justified? > > Could you please clarify? > > Thank you in advance, > > The installation process will prompt you whether you want to install a > Boot-Manager. You should then choose the options that says in effect: > > "No. Leave it alone" Well, I had BootManager, and it disappeared totally. FBSD on disk one starts automatically, but Linux on disk two, I now have to start with diskette. Perhaps there is a possibility to reactivate the BootManager? Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message