From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 13:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11574 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:13:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11456 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA16819; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:11:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:11:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steven Jenkins cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199801241240.EAA07917@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Steven Jenkins wrote: > I am considering installing FreeBSD over a PPP connection on my Pentium 100 > PC. However I am concerned that the installation could go wrong and render > my system unusable. How could I remove FreeBSD after installation and > return to my original Windows 95 setup ? Is it straight forward ? The main problem is that you have to adjust the partitions to make room for FreeBSD and undoing that is very difficult without backups. FreeBSD goes onto it's own partition (drive letter in DOS-speake) so that means removing part of the existing one. Other than that, you just trash the FreeBSD partition, create a DOS partition, and format it... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major