From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 19:52:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29306 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29265 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:52:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01293; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:51:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Manish Apte cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD and other OS's (DOS/NT) on a single PC In-Reply-To: <01BD2B3D.5B1E6540@TORRENT_1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Manish Apte wrote: > Hi, > > My PC has primary and extended DOS partitions and is running DOS and Windows NT 4.0. > With NT's dual boot facility I can boot either in DOS or in NT. > > I want to know if such a dual boot facility is available if I install FreeBSD on my PC. > I want to make sure that after installing FreeBSD I can still boot into my existing DOS and NT OS. > > Can you pl, help ? Yes. You can't install FreeBSD in a DOS partition, so don't foget to make unallocated space available for it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major