From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 17:53:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21298 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA21287 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA02460; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:52:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: steve and carol cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd and slackware In-Reply-To: <34035CF6.4F2F@virgin.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > hello there > I currently have a version slackware(in text form only) on my pc > In order to use it I use something called the umsdos filesystem which > allows me to have linux on an unaltered dos partition.Can you have free > bsd on a normal dos partition or wouls I have to format the disk to > create a bsd specific file system and structure No, it requires its own partition. I once installed slackware onto a DOS partition as well... seemed to me very buggy, as the system was slower than normal and seemed to crash much too frequently... even for Linux. :) I guess it would be nice for a single user system you just wanted play around in and didnt need rock solid stability.