Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 05:00:20 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: stanny@laa.com (Gary Stanny) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, gary@laa.com Subject: Re: FreeDBS & WIN 95 on the same box Message-ID: <199511100500.FAA11626@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9511091821.AA09747@handset.laa.com> from "Gary Stanny" at Nov 9, 95 01:21:53 pm
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Gary Stanny stands accused of saying: > #1 - I'll be needing to put up both Win 95 & FreeBSD. I am planning > to put up Dos 6.22 first, then FreeBSD 2.0.5 (now 2.1 soon) and then > finally upgrading DOS to Win95. Is this OK or does FreeBSD need to go > in first? And when do I install the boot manager (booteasy ?). Put FreeBSD in last, as otherwise W95 will delete the bootmanager. > #2 - I'm getting a 1.2 Gig drive & plan on spliting up as 700MB for DOS > & 500 MB for FreeBSD - is this OK? No. You will have problems because the 1.2G disk will almost certainly have a geometry-translating int13 redirector installed on it, and installing FreeBSD in that environment will be hell. If your DOS requirements can live in ~500M, then scrub the redirector (boot DOS from floppy and use fdisk to repartition the disk), and have FreeBSD use the rest. If that won't work, you may be OK with Ontrack's DiskManager. Or, buy a couple of smaller disks. > #3 - Here is the hardware I'm getting - does anyone see anything wrong? > > a GBT 486DX4-120 MHz PCI motherboard > 16 MB ram > 1.275 Conner EIDE drive > PCI High-Speed EIDE interface This should be on the motherboard. > PCI Cirrus Logic 5434 64-bit 1MB video card Get an S3 based card. Won't cost much more, and they're significantly quicker. > Gary Stanny Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. +1 313 995 5590 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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