From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 09:47:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA14881 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA14854 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:47:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA13473; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:43:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603151743.KAA13473@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Win 95 To: praj@nando.net (praj) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:43:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603150454.XAA28878@bessel.nando.net> from "praj" at Mar 14, 96 11:54:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have already installed freebsd on one partition of my harddisk. I have > another partition which currently runs win 3.1. I plan to upgrade this > partition to run Win 95. Before doing that i want to find out if this > will create any problems with freebsd. When you install Windows95, it will overwrite the boot selector to get a cosmetic change on the booting message for what it assumes is the DOS MBR. You will need to reinstall the boot selector. It can't hurt to get a copy of "pfdisk.exe" from the CDROM or from the FTP site, and list and save all the information in case it trashes the partition table as well. You will need osbs.exe from one of the same places to reinstall the boot selector. To reinstall, you must boot Windows95, and select "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode". This will defeat the Win95 boot sector "virus protection" that will prevent you from reinstalling osbs otherwise. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.