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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: bsd and slackware
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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, steve and carol wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> You'll have to repartition your disk, FreeBSD requires it's own slice.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
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this is not quite true....

you could do the following:
boot the boot floppy
choose the 'fixit' option
mount the dos partition.
..