Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:13:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ray Grieselhuber <grieselhuber.2@osu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD over linux Message-ID: <19990730121353.V93194@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199907300217.WAA11172@mail4.uts.ohio-state.edu>; from Ray Grieselhuber on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:20:14PM -0500 References: <199907300217.WAA11172@mail4.uts.ohio-state.edu>
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On Thursday, 29 July 1999 at 22:20:14 -0500, Ray Grieselhuber wrote: > I currently have Slackware and Windows 98 dually installed on my notebook. I want to > install Free BSD instead of Slackware, but I had a few questions. > 1) I have Linux installed on the first partition, and then Windows after that, because when I > installed Windows on the first partition, it took over the whole hard drive, and wouldn't > recognize Linux (go figure...) I read in the documentation however, that FreeBSD should be > installed on the second partition after a small Microsoft partition, This is very old advice for solving a specific problem. It was never intended to be general. > and then the rest of the extended partitions can be for Microsoft > also. Is the way I have my disk configured going to be a problem? Almost certainly not. > 2) I have LILO installed, and I was thinking about using Booteasy to > establish the same function, so I wouldn't have to boot from a floppy > when I wanted to boot FreeBSD. Will this get in the way when I try to > install FreeBSD? No. > Moreover, will I have to uninstall Linux before I install FreeBSD? No. When you want to completely replace an operating system, you never need to uninstall it. -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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