From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 21:05:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08260 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08247 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06131; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:05:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Costa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd question In-Reply-To: <33DA7FA9.8D1@peakaccess.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Michael Costa wrote: > hello my name is mike and i have a pentium pc. i already have win 95 > and all that jazz on one hard drive of 2.1g. i have annother hd 0f 170 > meg. can i install bsd on the smaller hd and keep the other stuff of the > 2g hd? and if i can how do i make a prompt to choose to go into bsd or > windows? if you can help me it would be greatly appreciated. You can get FreeBSD onto a 170mb volume if you limit yourself to the most basic distributions and don't install the X Window System. FreeBSD comes with a boot selector you can install that will allow you to select between Windows and FreeBSD on startup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo