Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:02:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "R. Leland Heaton Jr." <rlheaton@ROBLES.CALLUTHERAN.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win98 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810161301590.28399-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19981013202947.007abd00@clunet.edu>
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, R. Leland Heaton Jr. wrote: > Ok. I finished backing up the important stuff on my hard drive and I just > want to make sure that I have this right. I currently have Win98 on my > computer and I am going to put FreeBSD on. FDisk my computer and make two > partitions. install 98. Do I make sure 98 doesn't reformat the drive or > what? Yeah, make sure it stays in it's slice. The Windows installer can get wierd bents on thinking the whole disk is it's own private domain. > Then when I put on FreeBSD (floppy disk in for startup), how will it > know which partition is what (if I recall FreeBSD will ask you but I > want to know if it sees 98 on it?) FreeBSD requires it's own slice type; as long as you leave the desired amount of space completely unpartitioned (_COMPLETELY_) sysinstall will do the rest. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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