From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 23:21:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA26816 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26807 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07725; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:21:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Robin Knapp Dickey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi OS In-Reply-To: <340E5398.47527FAD@thoughtgroup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Robin Knapp Dickey wrote: > My computer has a single 4.3G drive that has three partitions. I have > installed Windows NT, DOS, and Windows 95 on the boot partition, c:\. > I want to install FreeBSD on partition E:\ without damaging the > functionality of the other OS's. Can this be done? If so, how? Carefully. Considering how much you have installed, it'll take some creativity to find a place for FreeBSD. The main problem is if your BIOS adheres to the 500MB boot limitation. That limit states that any OSs's bootable sections must reside below the 1024th cylinder on your boot disk(s). If you can get around that, you'll probably have to use FIPS or Partition Magic to split out some unpartitioned space to put the FreeBSD slice into. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo