From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 8:42:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB5014F15 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id KAA64348; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:40:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:40:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199909081540.KAA64348@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Shreela Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Win on master/BSD on slave? In-Reply-To: <199909081401.JAA64159@beowulf.utmb.edu> References: <37D570AB.8C529D11@dcnet2000.com> <199909081401.JAA64159@beowulf.utmb.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to follow up my own post: had to correct some misinformation. M. L. Dodson writes: > Shreela writes: > > If I set up win95 on my master HD 8.4G and my BSD on slave HD > > 3.2....will I have to do any partitioning of any kind? And would I need > > to bring up BSD from MS DOS7 (on master)? > > > [deleta] > Basically, if you have a highspeed internet connection, you > should download the two installation floppies (boot.flp and > root.flp), That should be kern.flp and mfsroot.flp for the RELEASE versions. > and a DOS/Windows program which will put them on the > floppy media for you. These are not DOS or Windows files; they > must not just be copied over to the floppies using the DOS copy > command or Windows "drag and drop". If you try that you will get > an error message. Be sure that you follow the instructions > carefully to do this and to accomplish the installation after you > have the installation floppies. If you do not have high speed > net access, I recommend buying the CD-ROMs. > [more deleta] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message