From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 03:21:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA07309 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 03:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA07278 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 03:21:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA28123; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:19:43 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma028120; Tue Jan 28 13:19:19 1997 Message-ID: <32EDE0B0.3532@barcode.co.il> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:19:12 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Davidson CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD along with WIN95 References: <32ED3813.2E71@cs.tamu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ryan Davidson wrote: > > Hello, > I am interested in installing FreeBSD but I am worried about conflicts > with my windows operating system. I would like to have windows as my > default OS, but be able to switch to a unix OS when necessary. Is this > possible? > > Thanks, > Ryan Davidson > rsd3957@cs.tamu.edu It is possible. FreeBSD comes with a boot manager that will let you select the OS at boot time. All you need is unpartitioned space on your hard disk where FreeBSD will get installed. Nadav