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Subject: Re: How Do I put FreeBSD and Win95 on the same HDD?
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Kevin Yeoh wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and to UNIX, but I have not been very happy with
> the Windows environment, coz of its many crashes and hangs.
> 
> I want to know how do I load FreeBSD to my present hard disk with Win95
> already installed?  Must I format the whole HDD and create two partitions
> for FreeBSD and Win95?  Or, is it possible to load a OS Manager to manage
> the two OS's??
> 
> Kevin Yeoh
> airinx@geocities.com

It's possible to have Win95 and FreeBSD on the same disk. There is a
freeware utility that comes with FreeBSD, as well as a commercial
utility called PartitionMagic (http://www.partition.com) that lets you
repartition disks without formatting them.

Take a (very good) look at the FreeBSD docs at http://www.freebsd.org.
You may also want to take a look at the multi-os tutorial, also
available on the web site.

Nadav