From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 12:08:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10135 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:08:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10067 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:08:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA12373; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:08:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:08:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Martin Steinbach cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a DOS partition? In-Reply-To: <34E984F4.8EF49880@telecom.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Martin Steinbach wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen! > > Could you please tell me, if it is possible to install FreeBSD on an > existing MS-DOS (win95) system... I mean, can I install it on an > FAT16/FAT32 file system, like with some dist. of Linux? No. FreeBSD requires it's own slice. > I cannot make a new partition for FreeBSD, but want to use a unix > compatible system (and I must confess, I don't like linux). Buy Partition Magic or a new disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message