Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 09:01:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: Shreela <shreela@dcnet2000.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Win on master/BSD on slave? Message-ID: <199909081401.JAA64159@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <37D570AB.8C529D11@dcnet2000.com> References: <37D570AB.8C529D11@dcnet2000.com>
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Shreela writes: > If I set up win95 on my master HD 8.4G and my BSD on slave HD > 3.2....will I have to do any partitioning of any kind? And would I need > to bring up BSD from MS DOS7 (on master)? > There is no problem installing in such a configuration. FreeBSD handles dual boot systems quite well. And partitioning will be done as part of the FBSD install program. Your two disks can be easily handled by the FBSD boot manager. But if you ever reinstall Windows, it will mess things up. (Bill Gates does not think that anyone in the world uses anything but Windows.) If you must reinstall Windows, you will have to set up the FBSD boot manager again after the Win reinstallation is finished. Please thoroughly browse the web site: www.freebsd.org Basically, if you have a highspeed internet connection, you should download the two installation floppies (boot.flp and root.flp), and a DOS/Windows program which will put them on the floppy media for you. These are not DOS or Windows files; they must not just be copied over to the floppies using the DOS copy command or Windows "drag and drop". If you try that you will get an error message. Be sure that you follow the instructions carefully to do this and to accomplish the installation after you have the installation floppies. If you do not have high speed net access, I recommend buying the CD-ROMs. > Do you plan on making any tutorials for this kind of set up if it turns > out to be complicated? I am doing this for the first time. I have 32Mb > RAM. > There are no "tutorials", but there are quite good instructions. You will, however, have to read them, and the more carefully you read them, the easier the install will be. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of FBSD users have done this before you, so take heart. Try to find someone with FBSD or Linux experience to "look over your shoulder". 32MB of ram is enough, but things will go better (both in FBSD and Windows) if you buy more. 64MB is the minimal amount I recommend to people these days. FBSD will work better in low memory situations than Windows. It is designed to be more efficient. > Thanks if you can help, > Sherri > ps...my college gives out notes on windows floppies.....will I be able > to bring them up in unix? > > Depends on the format of the notes. You can certainly read the floppies under FreeBSD. There are a couple of ways to do that. If they are, for example, Microsoft Word files, the answer is "not without a lot of configuration of your FreeBSD system first". In this case, set up FreeBSD, then post back here when you have a working system. If you set up a dual boot system (alluded to above; the procedure is outlined in the Handbook; see the web site), you will be able to read them under Windows. And you should lobby your college faculty to distribute notes in an architecture-neutral format such as PDF or HTML, not in some proprietary Microsoft format. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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