From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 8:27:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f44.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7362737B416 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:27:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:27:18 -0800 Received: from 24.126.14.71 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:27:18 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.126.14.71] From: "michelle gauthier" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Free BSD's instillation and use? Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:27:18 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Nov 2001 16:27:18.0947 (UTC) FILETIME=[3ABA7730:01C16D29] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As a third year programming student, a devotee to the open source *uix movement and a recent purchaser of a as yet uninstalled FreeBSD from CompUSA (along with Mandrake, Red Hat and SUSE Linux's), I am interested in installing Free BSD on a Windows 95 PC along side my already running Win95 and Red Hat 7.1. It was to this end I have installed a second 4 GB hard drive on which I have a 500 MB FAT32 Back-up, the necessary2.5 GB Red Hat partitions, and I have formatted using my recently updated Partition Magic 6, a 1 GB HPFS Unix partition. Thanks to your excelently written "The Complete Free" instruction manual, I see you have a LILO like "boot manager." Does your provided boot manager allow multiple boot options as does my presently owned Boot Magic, System Commander 200 and/or LILO? If so, does it allow allow all three OS's to boot to, and given the amount of HD space, do you recommend I shrink the HPFS partition or keep it for future expansion? Also being a Corel WordPerfect Suite 2000 for Linux owner, do you know if Corel's WP9 is UNIX compatible? If so, it would save the additional $250.00 UNIX Word Perfect purchase price. I will soon be again visiting your Web site to see how I may contribute to the Red Hat movement. Thank you very much for your assistance and the courtesy of your response. Sincerely, Ms. Michelle Gauthier m_s_gauthier@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message