From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 17 19:28:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21131 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 19:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (xtal193.xtalwind.net [205.245.61.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21101 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 19:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA25508; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:28:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:28:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: tachyon@syspac.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Os2 In-Reply-To: <199707180028.RAA01325@mailrelay.syspac.com> 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 Thu, 17 Jul 1997 tachyon@syspac.com wrote: > I already have OS/2 4.0 and Win95 installed on my machine, and I am > looking at installing FreeBSD to get a better breadth of experience... > I looked through the FAQ you have online, and didn't see anything > regarding OS/2 or the OS/2 Boot manager... It'll work just fine. Use OS/2's fdisk to add the FreeBSD `partition' to the boot manager menu. > though I did see how FreeBSD has its own boot manager yes. > if you have Win95 installed.. no. A boot manager don't care what operating system (or program loader) it boots. You'll probably prefer OS/2's BM over booteasy. > Os/2 is my primary system, with Win95 on a second physical hard > drive... I have 500 megs free on a extended partition on my second > hard drive, and was wondering if there will be extended problems > attempting to get FreeBSD installed to that partition... As long as your BIOS can see it to boot from it you should be OK. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------