From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 21:24:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA08984 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 21:24:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tombstone.sunrem.com (tombstone.sunrem.com [206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08973 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 21:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brandon@localhost) by tombstone.sunrem.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA03661; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:24:39 -0600 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:24:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windows 95 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Howard Lew wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Flavio Sa wrote: > > Can Windows 95 and Free BSD share a computer? > > > > Should I follow the install.txt intructions considering DOS? > > > > Thanks, > > Not a new questions.... That setup should be fine. A boot manager should > take care of the problem.... backup your data first. Not necessarily true, I'm running two systems, which are nearly identical with the exception that one is running a Cyrix 586 and the other a Pentium 100. I started from scratch, partitioned the drive and installed a base win95 system first, then I installed 2.1-R. I have had no END of problems with the 2.1-R system, from not being able to even RECOGNIZE a standard hitachi 4x speed IDE CDROM to failing out randomly at floppy reads (where the reads work fine on other 2.1-R systems--same disks). Fearing a hardware problem I sent the computer to a shop for some diagnostics, all returned fine. I'm not about to test it as far as soft/cold reboots from/to win95 and BSD. I can say one thing: AAARRRRGGGH!!!!! (You spend $1500 on a computer, it would be nice if it worked like you wanted it to :( -Brandon Gillespie