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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news2.cais.com!cais.cais.com!mcgraw From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I install BSD in the extended DOS partition? Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:46:03 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4jotnr$9g2@news2.cais.com> References: <wallace.828169016@void> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Wallace Su (wallace@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu) wrote: : A friend (who is a sys adm) told me I can only install BSD on my primary DOS : partition. Now I want to put it on the extended partition of my salve hard : drive because I don't want to delete the stuff on my primary partition. : Can I install BSD in the extended DOS partition? What special attention : should I pay to? FreeBSD guru plase help me because I don't want to screw : up my win95 again. Thanks. ? FreeBSD will not install FROM an extended DOS partition; is that what you mean? The bootdisk doesn't like extended partitions. If you make your second drive a primary partition and install FBSD, the one annoying factor is that you get two boot manager prompts in sequence. Win95 should still boot as F2 if the FBSD boot manager is installed over top the Win95 boot stuff. Up until I changed everything over the weekend, I could get WinNT, Win95, Dos, and FBSD to boot, with Winnt, Dos, and W95 on drive 0 and FBSD on slave drive 1. I have to write a bunch of stuff for W95 over the next couple months, so the only FBSD machine I have is here, and it is all by itself on an old DX2-66. It's stayed up without a flicker for seven days. So, if you're worried about W95 (and, whew, with that long, drug-out install, you have my sympathies...), I wish you the best of luck, but a guru I ain't.