Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:50:17 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: "Andy [Tecc Nops]" <andy@tecc.co.uk>, <joel2a@yahoo.com>, <Boomerkitten@aol.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: loading freebsd-unix Message-ID: <01061507501700.85317@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKOKIGKLFGGPFHCGBGEKODDAA.andy@tecc.co.uk> References: <NDBBKOKIGKLFGGPFHCGBGEKODDAA.andy@tecc.co.uk>
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On Friday 15 June 2001 07:25, Andy [Tecc Nops] wrote:
> Hmm, you obviously missed the thread "Re:dual boot pain"
> If you can get OSs onto diff physical hard drives them have
> them boot tell me how please. I've only managed to partition
> the first drive and install/boot from there.
>
> ;)
>
> Ak
If you install boot managers on both drives, it gives you the option of
hitting F1, F2, etc for that drive or F5 to switch drives, where the process
repeats. I have that on several machines, with no problems.
Beech
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of joel2a@yahoo.com
> Sent: 15 June 2001 16:18
> To: Boomerkitten@aol.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: loading freebsd-unix
>
>
> If keeping windows 98 is so important to you I would buy a new hard drive
> and install freebsd on that.
> Then use some multiple OS boot system to switch between them.
>
> Joel
>
>
> At 11:06 AM 6/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> Dear FreeBSD,
> I am interested in loading UNIX onto my computer but I know
> almost nothing about operating systems. I am currently running Windows98.
> If I
> download FreeBSD/UNIX, will I overwrite and destroy my existing
> operating
> system?
> In a networking class that I am taking, the machine has both the
> Microsoft 98 operating system and UNIX. If you hit f1, Windows loads,
> if you
> hit f2, UNIX loads. Will I end up with something like that.
> I'm very much interested in experimenting with UNIX, but not at
> the
> cost of trashing my existing system.
> Thanks, Boomerkitten@aol.com
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