From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 18 14:27:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA27959 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 14:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA27937 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 14:27:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA02507; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:56:49 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971219085648.23234@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:56:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Surya Avantsa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: <19971218214824.24625.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19971218214824.24625.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Surya Avantsa on Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 01:48:23PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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