From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 8 01:47:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA23881 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:47:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA23876 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA06934; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:47:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:47:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Lorne Neudorf cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD In-Reply-To: <32D2F5BA.44BE@common.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Lorne Neudorf wrote: > I have MSDOS. It is all partitioned off my 1 gig hard drive. 500 megs > is used up right now. I was wondering..if I download your "boot" disk > and boot up FREE BSD, and if I dont like it, can I just remove the disk > and re-boot my computer and everything will be back to normal? I run a > current server under win95 and I need something better...but It also has > to be easy to use. PLease answer this. Also...after installing > FREEBSD...can I use Windows95 after installing whenever I want (by > rebooting my computer). If no...how do I get my Old stuff back if I > dont want FREEBSD. It's not quite that easy. FreeBSD requires it's own partition space, so you would have to split your DOS partition. Unfortunately, it's easy to split them and not so easy to put them back together again. If you're not sure whether you'll like it or not, make a backup first or use some spare hard disk. > This would be a MASSIVE change for me...I just want to know if there is > something I could do incase I dont like FREEBSD! I'd appreciate a > response to my concern. From what I have heard...you are really good!! Once you get over the win -> unix change, I think you'll enjoy just how powerful FreeBSD is over Windows. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major