From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 21:19:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA07927 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07922 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA08072; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:09:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Omega cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows 95 In-Reply-To: <33F90ABF.2A1@gtec.com> 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 Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Omega wrote: > I have a 486/66 with 24 meg RAM and Windows 95. I want to experiment > with UNIX. Is there a way to use your (or any) program without messing > up Windows 95. Maybe through use of a boot disk or something... > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. > Rob French I have a 486/50 that got along fine with 16 megs ram (it now has 32) for a long time, running Windows 95 and FreeBSD (and OS/2 and Win 3.1, too). The critical thing is that FreeBSD needs a primary partition in which it will be installed, properly located (more info at http://www.freebsd.org--also see the tutorial there on multiple operating systems, probably http://www.freebsd.org/tutuorials/multios/ multios.html). Then with a boot manager, which you can install when you install FreeBSD, you can select which system to boot. Annelise