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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:56:48 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Surya Avantsa <suryava@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <19971219085648.23234@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19971218214824.24625.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Surya Avantsa on Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 01:48:23PM -0800
References:  <19971218214824.24625.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 01:48:23PM -0800, Surya Avantsa wrote:
> Hi
>
> First of all, let me thank you for providing me an opportunity to work
> on UN*X after several years.

You're welcome :-)

> I have a computer at home with Win95 installed on it. If I install
> FreeBSD on it, does it mean I cannot work on win95 and its programs ? Or
> is it possible that I can log in to the BSD UN*x or Win'95 as per my
> choice without affecting the programs on the Win'95 front ?

You can set up FreeBSD on a separate disk partition from Microsoft.
You can then boot from whichever partition you prefer.  The only thing
you can't do is run them both at the same time, or use the same disk
partition for both platforms.

Greg



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