From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 20:54:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00668 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00662 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA11209; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:24:14 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA29101; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:24:12 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980929132411.D15172@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:24:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: s3v@usa.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question References: <360DB788.58B3AF1@usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <360DB788.58B3AF1@usa.net>; from s3v@usa.net on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 12:56:56AM -0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 27 September 1998 at 0:56:56 -0300, s3v@usa.net wrote: > I'm new with unix and bsd alike... my question is: will installing > freeBSD on my pentium2 machine erase my existing os, win95 + msdos ??? > what can I expect? Only if you tell it to (recommended :-) You'll need a free disk partition to install FreeBSD on. This could be a problem. Check out the FreeBSD handbook for details (http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/handbook.html). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message