Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:21:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jon Wynacht <jwynacht@switchlight2239.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Windows 98 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909051019290.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000601bef7be$e39fcc20$aada46ab@jwynacht.cisco.com>
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Jon Wynacht wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD on my Win98 laptop. I have plenty of speed and > memory but I was wondering if you all had tips or insights on this? > Specifically: > > 1. I was told I could boot the CD on startup but haven't been able to do > that. Any ideas? you can try making a boot floppy, then picking the CDrom as the install media later in the install: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html look at step "4". > > 2. Do I have to use Partition Magic or some other utility to create a new > partition? Not a bad idea, FreeBSD does a seperate _primary_ partition to reside in. good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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