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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!nntp.portal.ca!news From: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Windows 95 / FreeBSD Help!! Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:13:08 -0700 Organization: Client of Intenet Portal Services Lines: 50 Message-ID: <3176A254.3308@portal.ca> References: <4l308n$ikv@vespucci.iquest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d170.portal.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Todd Stevens wrote: > > Could someone please provide help on installing FreeBSD on a PC running > Windows 95 so that both could co-exist on the C: drive? Is it possible > without adding a partition? If I need to add a partition, can I do so > "non-destructively" with something called FIPS? Is there a FAQ? Is > there a good book recommendation?? Here are some specs on my system: > > Model: Gateway 2000 P5-60 > CPU: Pentium 60MHZ > Motherboard: 586PCI4 > Memory: 8 MB RAM > Hard Drive: 730 MB IDE (~290 MB Free) > CDROM: NEC 2x > Sound Card: SoundBlaster 16 > Video Card: STB 1MB CL5430 > Modem: Telepath II 14.4 Fax/Modem > > Any help would be appreciated. I don't even want to attempt it unless I > can be assured that I won't lose my Windows 95 and data in the process!! > > Thanks, > > Todd Stevens > tstevens@iquest.com Todd, I successfully installed FreeBSD on my Gateway using FIPS to preserve my DOS partition with Windows 95. Have a look at http://www.ca.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook20.html#22 before you perform the installation, and defrag your disk (I used the Windows 95 disk defrag utility, and was very careful to ensure that I didn't have any applications open when I ran it, and that I shut the machine down immediately after running defrag. For documentation, have a look at the handbook (same http address), and get a good systems administration book (http://www.ca.freebsd.org/handbook/bibliography.html offers some excellent suggestions). This newsgroup is also an excellent source of information on difficult issues. Best of luck, and enjoy FreeBSD. Christoff Snijders hjcs@portal.ca