Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:19:49 -0500 From: Prashant Dongre <pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net> To: "Netscape 4.0" <king@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC with multiple Operating Systems Message-ID: <33F8A055.1E1CD250@opentech.stpn.soft.net> References: <33F7F185.77F11250@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu>
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Netscape 4.0 wrote: > Hello, > > I have a computer with about 1.6 and 3.0 Gig disk drives, > partitioned into 250-300 MB partitions. I have Windows 3.1 > and Linux installed, and will soon add Windows95 and perhaps > Windows NT. I would like also to add FreeBSD since I am > not entirely happy with Linux. However I can't find documentation > to answer the following questions: > > 1. Can FreeBSD easily coexist with the other Operating systems? > Can I boot FreeBSD from DOS; can I boot FreeBSD from > floppy and switch / to the hard disk? Yes. You can load Boot Manager that comes with FreeBSD or any other Boot Manager that would boot from a particular disk partition. And you can have partitions to load DOS, WIN95, WIN NT etc. etc et all > 2. Can FreeBSD read DOS FAT files, can FreeBSD read Linux > ext2 systems > 3. I can use fdisk from Linux to create partitions > readable from DOS and Linux. Will FreeBSD recognize > these partitions? > While loading/partitioning you can make room for other operationg systems which you plan to use. Prashant
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