From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 18:47:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7DC37B583 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:47:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.154.44]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FRYIFN00.7SI for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:47:47 -0700 Message-ID: <000401bf9604$c4d6a4a0$2c9ac5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: Subject: Re: OSes Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:45:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:02 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: >On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:02:20AM -0500, Jdkirtland@aol.com wrote: > >> I am interested in installing several operating systems on my personal >> computer. I just purchased a 27 GB hard drive and I plan to partition it to >> hold some or all of the following: Windows 98 and 2000, Gentus and RedHat >> 6.1 Linux, BeOS 4.5 or 5.0, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD. I was looking for any >> input on the best way to partition the drive, in which order i should install >> the OSes, and what boot manager is best to use. > >You need to install the Micro$oft ones first, commercial ones next, >free ones last. There are a few boot managers around, the one that I >most prefer is OS-BS Beta. Would you please get in touch with me privately please, if any of you have a "working" knowledge of BeOS. I visited their site and now have a sense of BeOS's "look & feel", but have no idea as to whether ot not it's an OS in the same league as FBSD et al, or win9x etc. Tia.... -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message