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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!blackbird.afit.af.mil!news.engr.udayton.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Win95 Date: 6 Apr 1996 21:46:43 -0600 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4k7dr3$6dp@plains.nodak.edu> References: <4js47u$koj@Steinlager.tip.net> <4k2f29$pm3@bart.rogerswave.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <4k2f29$pm3@bart.rogerswave.ca>, Wong Family <wong@wong.rogerswave.ca> wrote: >Mika Nihtilä (nihtila@nihtila.pp.se) wrote: >: Hi! Can FreeBSD Coexist with a Win 95 system? >Yes, you could. you should install Win 95 first though. >: My harddrive have four partions, Win95 on C:, I have an empty F: with >: 160Mb can I install it there? As you said, it is important that MSDOS/Windows95 are installed first. However, the process of installing FreeBSD on that "empty" partition could corrupt your MSDOS/Windows95 installation IF MSDOS knows about that partition! (It's been awhile since I ran a fresh install so maybe things have changed since then.) In MSDOS's fdisk be sure to delete that partition before trying to install FreeBSD. If what you think is a "partition" is actually a logical drive on an MSDOS extended partition...that isn't going to work. DOS first...leaving some unallocated partition space, then let the FreeBSD installation make the rest of the decisions. (Ahhh, for the good ol' days of battling with disktab's, disklabel's, newfs, and a buggy "FixIt" floppy with a buggy kernel. Depending on the kernel build it sometimes took 3-4 days of trying before it was possible to boot from the hard drive, but then I had weird hardware. Those were the daze!:-) -- Daniel