From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 9:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C92F37B4C5 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id SAA21187; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:49:58 +0100 From: tudor@bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr Received: from dnscit.cit.alcatel.fr (dnscit.cit.alcatel.fr [139.54.100.2]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id SAA08751; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:05:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from dnsvz.vz.cit.alcatel.fr (dnsvz.vz.cit.alcatel.fr [139.54.85.1]) by dnscit.cit.alcatel.fr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00234; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:10:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr (bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr [139.54.101.1]) by dnsvz.vz.cit.alcatel.fr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22914; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:11:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr ([172.25.128.14] (may be forged)) by bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.1) id SAA13476; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:06:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3A1D5062.7568C465@bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:14:10 +0200 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parthasarathi Biswas Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: References: <000801c05525$440c94c0$0100a8c0@Partha> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Parthasarathi Biswas wrote: > > Hello, > My name is Parthasarathi Biswas.Iam Trying to install FreeBSD.My > problem is I have a multioperating systems in the same > machine..98/NT/Linux. > 1.98 and Nt are in the same disk but different partition. > 2.the second disk is partioned in two ways one is a DOS partition > which has some important datas.and the other partition is the LINUX > partion. > 3.My system first has LILO boot..and then its gives choices among 98 > and NT > > Now I want to delete linux partion/LINUX from the second disk/fourth > partion and install FreeBSD there but don't know how to do am afraid > it might delete my second disk and the datas.Pls advise how do I go > about it. > Thanks and Brgds > Partha > hello, I think you don't have to be afraid of loosing your DOS partition with important data. I guess you're used with fdisk and you're able to delete the Linux partition and not the DOS one. In the worse case, when you're not able to boot any operating system you still can use a DOS boot disk and read your DOS partition. Anyway, if you install FreeBSD over your Linux, you must use FreeBSD's boot manager which is able to boot all your operating systems. In the setup process at the boot manager section you should select the BootMgr option. The boot manager MUST be installed on the 1st drive even if your FreeBSD lies on your 2nd disk. Here is a reference for installing FreeBSD's boot manager: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~rpratt/40/boot_mgr.html Of course, you can search other references, too. If something happens, a solution for booting at least your NT/98 is to boot from a DOS bootdisk, then: fdisk /mbr and then setting your 98 or NT partition as active. Good luck ! Tudor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message