From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 04:44:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA19501 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:44:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.svr.freeserve.net (mail1.svr.freeserve.net [194.152.65.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA19496 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from modem-59.sulfur.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.7.187] helo=ukonline.co.uk) by mail1.svr.freeserve.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05iplimit-2 #4) id 0zYrQk-00084u-00; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:43:59 +0000 Message-ID: <3638630A.E76096EA@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:43:54 +0000 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Goeken CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel References: <000701be03a5$b5c61f60$72d9f8cc@goeken-family> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ryan Goeken wrote: > > I want to install FreeBSD to improve my unix skills. Someone told me > that FreeBSD > comes with a boot manager. Does that help if you have two OS's on > the same > computer? Does this allow you to switch back and fourth between the > two? > My brother said that having two OS's on one computer would mess up > the > kernel. Is he right? And if so, how can i prevent this from > happening? Please help. > > -- > Ryan Goeken FreeBSD comes with an optional boot manager. Yes, that allows you to have multiple O.S.'s on same machine. You can NOT switch back and forth in real time, but you can choose which one you wan't to boot to when you start the machine (just pressing the function keys: F1, F2, etc.,). Nothing should go wrong if you take the time to read the instructions for this (http://www.freebsd.org/) BEFORE you try installing FreeBSD. Also, install FreeBSD last as other O.S.'s are not quite so clever and can make a bit of a mess. Hope this helps, Chris R. -- Christopher Raven E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk & ICQ: 2254369 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ "The Power To Serve" http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ "A PC is for life, not just for Xmas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message