Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM> To: Dominic Mitchell <dom@happygiraffe.net> Cc: Andrew Boothman <0094187@sms.ed.ac.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win98 and FBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10010072303060.29126-100000@cello.qnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001007201034.A39732@ppe.happygiraffe.net>
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I have never installed WIN98 but have lots of experience with another primitive M$ OS, MS-DOS. DOS wants to grab all the drive it can. I prevent this by first using FDISK from a DOS boot floppy to create, format, and mark bootable a partition the size I want it to be. I then install DOS before anything else, because DOS is likely to format any other partitions it finds. One could presumably use a DOS boot floppy with FDISK to create a partition for WIN98, but formatting will have to be done from the WIN98 install. Paul Smith stork@qnet.com > [1] Be careful, the default options for win98 install doesn't always > give you a chance to partition your hard drive before proceeding with > the install. It just assumes you want to use the whole hard disk... > There is a way out of it, though. Wish I could remember how. Probably > by pressing F5 or F8 when the win98 setup disk boots, actually. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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