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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 15:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Brandon Shepherd <bpshepherd@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505155323.621A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980505212303.13623.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Brandon Shepherd wrote:

>I have a question the installation of FreeBSD.
>I am currently running an MS-DOS system with Windows 95.

>Will installing FreeBSD require the formatting of the hard drive?

No.

>Can you have the FreeBSD OS exist along with my current OSes?

Yes. You will need to provide some disk space in a seperate DOS partition
in order to do so. I have a 2 gig IDE that is half w95 and half FreeBSD.

>I would like to install it on my PC, but if I cannot keep my old OSes 
>along with it I may purchase a separate computer to use FreeBSD on.

See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html for more info.

Thank you,       | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at.
Jason Wells	 | http://www.freebsd.org/


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