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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Alexander Nelson wrote:

> Could you please explain how an MS-DOS user could use both the DOS and the
> FreeBSD operating systems on the same computer?  If this is impossible, or is
> explained in the handbook, then please tell me so.

The normal way is to defragment your disk and use the FIPS utility to
split off the free space into a new partition, then remove it and install
FreeBSD in the space.  

Or, install a new hard disk and install the Booteasy utility to the first
disk.  Booteasy gives you a menu to pick which OS you want to start on
bootup.

This is explained in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html, or the
INSTALL.TXT file in the release directory.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major