From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 8:50:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC40637B405 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9E34155; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:50:17 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: "Andy [Tecc Nops]" , , Subject: Re: loading freebsd-unix Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:50:17 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061507501700.85317@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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 ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message