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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!void!wallace From: wallace@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Wallace Su) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: install FreeBSD on win95 questions Date: 28 Mar 96 15:50:48 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 16 Message-ID: <wallace.828028248@void> NNTP-Posting-Host: void.ncsa.uiuc.edu I am installing FreeBSD on my pentium 60 which has already installed win95. I have 2 hard drives, drive C: is 524MB and D: is 1080MB. I tried to put FreeBSD on the extended partition on drive D:. After following the novice installation, in which I chose to install "Boot-easy" boot manager, it wouldn't boot anything -- it just asked me to insert system disk again and reboot. What happened? If I put win95 start disk in drive A:, it will get me into DOS. All DOS files in drive C: and the primary partition of drive D: are still visible. But I cannot run win95 either. According to the FAQ, installing FreeBSD AFTER installing win95 will be OK, although not vice versa. And if my symptom looks like a disk geometry inconsistency, can someone tell me how to fix this problem? In my case, can I recover my win95 without reinstalling it? Please help!!! wallace wallace@ssax.com