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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: -=mFp=- <mfpmax@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win95/FreeBSD 2.2.2 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 06:39:16 -0400 Organization: mFp Industries Lines: 23 Message-ID: <33D09954.2CF2@hotmail.com> References: <33CE4FFA.F219E870@informatics.net> Reply-To: mfpmax@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.146.74.134 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) To: Toby Gebhart <gebhart@informatics.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44665 Toby Gebhart 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! > > Toby Gebhart > mailto:gebhart@informatics.net When I installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 it installed just fine. First I had Windoze 95 installed first, then installed FreeBSD. I had a 50/50 split hard drive for both OS. Besides that, Windoze 95 is sooo evil. Just give the main partition to FreeBSD instead. Or just get 2 systems if you can.