From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 20:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A867737B407 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.246.214.124.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.214.124] helo=sparky) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17KsLp-0004M1-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:11:14 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Eric" Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:11:36 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Subject: Re: TRIPLE BOOT--fbsd/w98/w2k MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1130 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 6/19/2002 11:43:36 PM, "Eric" wrote: >Hi, > >I currently have FBSd and W2K living in harmony. I am not sure which boot >loader I am currently using, but it is managing fine. I now want to add a >new partition in the beginning of my disk and install windows 98. however, >i am afraid i am going to wipe out freebsd--i mean make it unbootable. i am >using partition magic to make the new partition in the first 500mb of my >first hard drive. > >searching the archives, i see some nice tricks from recovering from mistakes >in this kind of procedure. however, I want to do it right from the >beginning. so i am inquiring now before i attempt the procedure. > >what is the proper way to add w98 to this os orgy? do i need to make a boot >disk floppy to make sure that, if all else fails, at least the floppy can >still boot my fbsd os? If I do indeed need to make a boot floppy, do I just >use the image at >, or >do I need to do something different? > >(ps--i also have boot magic, if that would make things easier) >(pps--fbsd 4.4 release) > >thanks, > >eric The FreeBSD part of things will likely be the least problematic. Do lots of reading at MS's web site and in Partition & Boot Magic's help files re booting W98 with W2K. You certainly need to find out what you're using to boot right now. What does your present boot screen/menu look like? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message