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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD going, or lack of it!
Date: 10 Sep 1993 16:56:44 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT
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In article <26p90g$ds5@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, <mccs3108@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrote:
> First of all, everytime I try to install it, it nukes my DOS
>partition. This wouldn't be so bad (I have everything backed on tape)
>except that when I try to create another DOS partion, there is no room
>left (even though I know I've only partitioned half the drive to BSD).
>
> Anyone been able to get it install and coincide with a DOS partition?
>How?! After my first post, I received replies saying that there was a
>bug in the install, but no luck with fixes, etc.
>
1) Get pfdisk from an archive site. (I suppose we should stick a version
in the tools directory)
2) Boot DOS
3) Create a DOS partition with DOS fdisk.
4) Install DOS
5) reboot
6) Install pfdisk onto a bootable floppy
7) run pfdisk and write down ALL the information on your drive, offsets,
etc on your hard-drive.
8) Create a 2nd partition with pfdisk which has a partition ID of 165 (386BSD)
with the rest of the disk
9) Write down ALL of the partition information (start/stop cylinders, heads,
# cylinders, # sectors, offsets, sizes, etc)
10) write out the new partition information to disk
11) Boot DOS once more just to be safe
12) Install FreeBSD
(Pray that it works, it will install everything where you tell it to)
13) If it screws up your partition table, boot your pfdisk floppy
and using the exact same parameters as you did before, re-create your
DOS and 386BSD partitions, and make your 386BSD partition active.
14) Write out partition table to disk.
15) Finish installing FreeBSD
16) Boot your pfdisk and make DOS partition active
17) Boot DOS
18) Get a decent boot-loader (os-bs135.exe is nice)
19) Install boot loader in MBR.
20) Make FreeBSD your primary partition to boot from
21) Slowly forget about DOS and use BSD more and more
22) Be happy
Nate
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