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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.infi.net!news.infi.net!not-for-mail From: rolfe@richmond.infi.net (Alex Rolfe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win95/FreeBSD 2.2.2 Date: 18 Jul 1997 11:49:34 GMT Organization: InfiNet Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5qnl8e$ibc$1@nw001.infi.net> References: <33CE4FFA.F219E870@informatics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1-27.richmond.infi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44615 In article <33CE4FFA.F219E870@informatics.net>, gebhart@informatics.net says... >I want to get a dual boot config working, but can't seem to.I have a >2.5G EIDE HD, that I want with a 500 meg FreeBSD partition, a 500 meg >primary bootable DOS/95 partition, and a 1500 meg partition. What are >the requirements for me to get this working properly? It seems like I >can't ever get this right, first time I installed FreeBSD fine, >installed fine to dos, but then when I tried installing Win95 it seems >to overwrite the Master Boot Record, which deletes my Boot Manager, >leaving me un dual bootable. If I install Windows 95 first, it seems >like FreeBSD wants to repartition my hard drive, then again deleting >Windows 95 and everything else. 1. Make a backup of your HD, or at least anything you don't want to loose. 2. Make a FreeBSD partition. This can be done two ways -If you don't have anything you care about on the computer, repartition the drive with fdisk, install windows on the first partition, then install FreeBSD on the second. I don't know whether fdisk will let you resize an existing partition without deleting the data. -Use FIPS to split and existing partition. Note: this won't work with Win95b because it uses FAT 32. IF you're going to try resizing a partition, defrag your drive first. 3. Install FreeBSD I don't think you can install FBSD off a Dos partition if it uses FAT 32. Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong. Good Luck Alex rolfe@richmond.infi.net