From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 21:52:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rani.pworld.net.ph (host-216-226-193-162.interpacket.net [216.226.193.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA83A152FA for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noelt@rani.pworld.net.ph) Received: from localhost (noelt@localhost) by rani.pworld.net.ph (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04859; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:54:40 +0800 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:54:39 +0800 (JST) From: noelt@rani.pworld.net.ph To: Khetan Gajjar Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on a 486DX2 In-Reply-To: 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 Hi! again. On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:22:27 +0200 (SAST) > From: Khetan Gajjar > Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar > To: noelt@rani.pworld.net.ph > Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on a 486DX2 > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 noelt@rani.pworld.net.ph wrote: > > >Thanks for the help. Probably, I will try this again. > > Please do! > thanks. > >Actually, I was able to install FreeBSD alone on that same computer with > >the same hard disk. It's just that, there are times that I need a win95 > >to fiddle something that's why I wanted to dual boot. > > Is there any way to tell the overlay software to only be used > for DOS/Windows ? I don't know. All I know is that old computers need those overlay software if you have a big hard disk. One thing I like with FreeBSD is that it recognize the seagate overlay drivers unlike Linux OS it doesn't know what does overlay software does. I have tested this, I installed the seagate manager then installed FreeBSD and it went thru and was able to used it w/o any problems. Base on FreeBSD FAQ, FreeBSd do not destroy what seagate overlay did, instead FreeBSD rearrange it in a way that it can be managed. You know what, I am beginning to learn this OS. Thanks for your help and this list. noelt. > --- > Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za > http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za > FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ > Stupidest quote heard : Who is this BSD, and why should we free him ? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message