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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win95/FreeBSD 2.2.2 Date: 19 Jul 1997 05:23:04 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5qpivo$kn2$2@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <33CE4FFA.F219E870@informatics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961126] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44656 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Toby Gebhart <gebhart@informatics.net> wrote: > Hello, > 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. Please help me get this working right! > I'm a 13 year old, but I'm pretty good with this stuff, just can't get > the darn things going! Windows 95 always deletes the boot manager. But you can reinstall it (I'd reinstall OSBS) by making a dos bootable floppy and putting the boot manager and the file to install the boot manager (I think you need that too) on the floppy, and then booting from the floppy. If Win95 is installed and you have a partition ready for FreeBSD, you should not have any problems; FreeBSD does not want to repartition your entire hard drive, it only wants to know in what partition or slice you want to put it. You have to look carefully at the screen to make sure you know where Win95 is, and where the partition is where you want to put FreeBSD. Then you use D to delete that partition (it's the wrong kind) and C to recreate it, and proceed from there. Of course, advance back-up is always advised. You'll get the darn thing going! Annelise