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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!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a WIN95 platform Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 18:22:57 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31B632F1.6995@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bb52f6.6f8a7d00$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Henriette wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to install freebsd on a win95 platform, when I install > FreeBSD will it preserve all my windows95 setting? > Thanks for taking your time to read this message. > bye.... Basic sequence: 1) Decide how much space to give to Win95 and how much to FBSD. 2) Defrag your hard drive completely. Verify available space. 3) run FIPS utility (or equivalent) to shrink the Win95 slice. 4) Delete the "new" empty partition (FDISK will do this). 5) Install FreeBSD in the remaining space, including Boot Mgr. Boot Manager will let you boot into either partition and OS. Hope this helps! Ken