From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 1:35:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBD915C03 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 01:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10eECP-00091h-0C; Mon, 3 May 1999 08:35:38 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA01816; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:35:20 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id JAA00353; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:06:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:06:34 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Phil Jourdan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install doubts Message-ID: <19990503090634.A255@marder-1> References: <4.1.19990502162822.009fd140@mail.quik.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM +1200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, 2 May 1999, Phil Jourdan wrote: > > > 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" > FWIW a couple of times when I've installed FreeBSD and chosen the "No. Leave it alone" boot manager option FreeBSD has set it's own slice as startable (and removed the startable flag from drive C:). This means that when you re-boot it comes up in FreeBSD, not to the NT boot mangler. I'm not sure why this should happen, but it has. Anyone have any ideas? This could make a newbie think that his Windows system has been overwritten. The easy solution is to simply run FDISK (DOS) and reset drive C: to startable/active. Phil: There is a section in the FAQ which details how to add FreeBSD to the NT boot menu. HTH > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Experience is a hard teacher > because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message