From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 16:03:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA14429 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:03:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA14423 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA19636; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:03:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:03:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: user cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question In-Reply-To: <345A17F9.11DA@tsoft.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, user wrote: > My PC's situation: I have W95 installed, got a Western Digital 1.6GB HDD > (with only a single partition) and old BIOS which cannot work with HDD > larger than 500MB so I have EZ-drive disk manager (distributed with WD > HDD) installed as well. > > What changes do I need to do to be able to install FreeBSD? > (I read that FreeBSD support only the Ontrack Disk Manager.) You will probably want to buy a dedicated disk. In order to make FreeBSD bootable, you'll have to make your Windows partition about 400MB. > Can I install FreeBSD on the same partition as W95? > (Probably not...) No. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major