Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:49:07 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: maxwellw@ComCAT.COM Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Warez96@cris.com Subject: Re: win95 & freeBSD? Message-ID: <199701032249.PAA24447@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <32CD6BC1.5BEF@ix.comcat.com> from "Derek William Maxwell" at Jan 3, 97 03:28:22 pm
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The person who calls him/her self "UNTAMED-ENTITY" wrote:
% hi i have been wanting to install something like unix or linux for
% sometime, but the problem is, i don't want to lose all the advantages of
% win95 (plus my ma would prolly get pretty peeved if i deleted windows :)
% and i was wondering if there was a way to setup freeBSD with win95 as an
% optional bootup, like you can do with an old version of ms-dos and win95?
And Derek William Maxwell Says:
> Buy System Commander (I forget the company). It is about $50 (+ or -
> $10). I am running Win 95, Linux, and NT Workstation 4.0. Make sure to
> keep your Unix OS on a separate partition, it makes life a lot easier.
FreeBSD comes with a bootmanager called BootEasy, which is installed
automagically when you install FreeBSD. It will allow you to boot
FreeBSD, Win95, or any other operating system off your hard drive(s).
"It's in there!"
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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