Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:03:52 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: James Johnson <akgifts@ptialaska.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition Message-ID: <32F6FB78.50E3@barcode.co.il> References: <32F687C9.6864@ptialaska.net>
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James Johnson wrote: > > I am not quite sure how I would go about using a dos partition, > but then again I'm not quite sure if it is needed. I have two > physical drives. C contains dos/windows95. I would like for D > to contain FreeBSD, and use boot manager on start up. Can I just > install FreeBSD to D, and use boot manager? Would a dos partition > be needed? I am not really sure what a dos partition is, so > please explain this. > > Thank you. > > Jimmy Johnson You need a DOS partition only where you want to store DOS files. However, it is a good idea to have a DOS partition on a disk you're going to install FreeBSD onto, and delete it while installing, replacing it with a FreeBSD partition. It seems that the installation program, like any good hacker, is especially good in learning by example (a.k.a. cut-and-paste), so sometimes it finds it easiers to figure out how to cerate a FreeBSD partition if there is already a DOS partition on the disk. You *can* install FreeBSD on the seconds disk and use the boot manager to boot it or dos/windows95. Note that the installation program has a tendency to install the boot manager on the wrong disk, so you might have to install it manually by running \tools\bootinst.exe from DOS (won't work from Win95). Good luck, Nadav
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