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From: dma@aei.ca (David Ma)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding FreeBSD to Win95 System?
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:39:03 GMT
Organization: Bell Global Solutions
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On Thu, 9 May 1996 14:43:36 GMT, dhawk@netcom.com (David H) wrote:

>I bought a P166 (16 MB ram, 2 Gb disk) with Windows 95 already
>installed. Is the process for adding FreeBSD going to be any
>different from what the web page/handbook description?  My
>system doesn't have a c:\windows or \dos directory, I don't
>think and it might not have fips. (It's at home and I'm at
>work, so I can't check.)
>
>The Windows 95 newsgroups recommend using Partition Magic
><http://www.powerquest.com/>  for repartitioning a Win95 disk.
>Anybody tried this and then installed FreeBSD?

Yes, Partition Magic is MUCH better and easier than FIPS for
repartitioning without data loss.  Highly recommended.  However, I
kind of screwed up myself by installed win 95 after FreeBSD -- lost my
boot manager and can't access my FreeBSD partition.  So I can't help
you there.

I'll let you know if I find something, though...