Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 19:24:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: jkitchens@msn.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960928192233.230I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609290121.SAA17890@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Burke County Mounted Sheriff's Posse wrote: > I have a dual-boot{IBM's OS/2Warp ver3's Boot-Manager} Operating system. > My Computer is a 686/P150 48mg RAM > Dual operating system(s): Microsoft Windows 95 on the 2gig HD connected to > the primary controller in a FAT Partition. > IBMs Operating System 2 Version 3 (WARP) on the 850mg HD connected to the > Primary Controller in a 101mg FAT Partition. > How can I install FreeBSD without interferring with my current operating > conditions? You'd have to add some diskspace, assuming that your current setup has no unallocated space currently. > There seems to me to be a Boot Floppy: Does this mean I can stick the OS on > my HD and use this Boot Floppy to BOOT the FreeBSD Operating System? Yes, once it's installed. The install program (``sysinstall'') is on the floppy too. > Or is it installed and run/setup/installed like other OS's? ie; OS/2 Warp, > MSDOS, MSWINDOWS. EXAMPLE: OS/2 Warp will install in your primary > partition right along with WINDOWS and the System you shut-down in is the > system that starts when you boot/re-boot. I prefer to have my OS's totally > separate from each other. Can I do this with FreeBSD? You MUST do this with FreeBSD. It's filesystem structure is not compatible with FAT (ie, the type your OS/2 and Windows95 partitions are). You can use OS/2's Boot Manager to boot your FreeBSD slice though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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