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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: wayne tamagi <wtamagi@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Subject: Re: Running Freebsd and Windows 95
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, wayne tamagi wrote:

> I am interested in installing FreeBsd on my PC system.  I am already 
> running Windows 95 and I would like to know how I can run both operating 
> systems. I read some of your FAQ's and the answer to my question was 
> quite vague. My hard drive is already partitioned, so my guess I would 
> run Windows 95 on the C: drive and FreeBsd on my D drive. Is this 
> correct?  And if so, how do I toggle the boot up at the beginning of the 
> boot up sequence. Again I am assuming the Boot Manager at the beginning 
> will prompt whether to run FreeBsd or Windows 95.  I am very excited to 
> try our your product but I would like to avoid buying another computer 
> system to run FreeBsd.  I know that would be a better option. Thanks.

Yes, you can run both.  You will have to install the Boot Manager to the 
first disk yourself, but that isn't hard.  The necessary utils are in 
/tools on the CD or the ftp site.

Other than that, it should be quite smooth.

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