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From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can I install BSD in the extended DOS partition?
Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:46:03 GMT
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Wallace Su (wallace@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: A friend (who is a sys adm) told me I can only install BSD on my primary DOS
: partition. Now I want to put it on the extended partition of my salve hard
: drive because I don't want to delete the stuff on my primary partition.
: Can I install BSD in the extended DOS partition? What special attention
: should I pay to? FreeBSD guru plase help me because I don't want to screw
: up my win95 again. Thanks.

?  FreeBSD will not install FROM an extended DOS partition; is that what 
you mean?  The bootdisk doesn't like extended partitions.  If you make 
your second drive a primary partition and install FBSD, the one annoying 
factor is that you get two boot manager prompts in sequence.  Win95 
should still boot as F2 if the FBSD boot manager is installed over top 
the Win95 boot stuff. Up until I changed everything over the weekend, I 
could get WinNT, Win95, Dos, and FBSD to boot, with Winnt, Dos, and W95 
on drive 0 and FBSD on slave drive 1.

I have to write a bunch of stuff for W95 over the next couple months, so 
the only FBSD machine I have is here, and it is all by itself on an old 
DX2-66. It's stayed up without a flicker for seven days.  So, if you're 
worried about W95 (and, whew, with that long, drug-out install, you have 
my sympathies...), I wish you the best of luck, but a guru I ain't.