From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 10:32:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA28168 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA28162 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I21YK2858000057E@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 07 Mar 1996 10:35:26 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA20127; Thu, 07 Mar 1996 10:38:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 10:38:11 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: Re: freeBSD In-reply-to: <313DEE93.58A8@mitre.org> To: rwiggins@mitre.org (Rita Wiggins) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199603070938.KAA20127@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > i tried to install freeBSD on my computer(Pentium 100), but it > apparently departitioned to hard drive and im currently trying > to recover it. How do you install freeBSD and still keep the partitions > so that DOS/Windows 95 (and the rest of the hard drive) are still > functionable? I assume you were installing FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. Could you describe your disk configuration a bit? THere is one caveat with 2.1: When you are installing on a disk 1 it may mess your disk 0. When you want to install it on disk 0 you should fdisk disk 0 such there is enough free space for a FreeBSD partition. There is also a tool, FIPS.EXE in the CD's tools directory which allows you to shrink an existing DOS partition (this method is not guaranteed but it works in 99% of all cases). Then boot the install floppy, Express install is a good choice unless you want to do something special. Partition and Label the FreeBSD portion and go ahead installing. Not that you can remove a FreeBSD boot loader from the master boot record with the DOS FDISK/MBR command. And also note that a Win95 installation clobbers the MBR (FreeBSD primary boot sector). > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de