Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:38:01 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: shaffinb@gandalf.matrikon.ab.ca (Shaffin Bhanji) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604120038.TAA05664@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <316D4644.5A66@matrikon.ab.ca> from "Shaffin Bhanji" at Apr 11, 96 11:49:56 am
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> HI, > > I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF THE OS WILL CO-EXIST WITH ANOTHER > OS AS LINUX DOES ???? AND CAN I BOOT TO ANY OS AT THE COMMAND PROMPT > > EXAMPLE : > > AS "LILO" DOES IN LINUX --> GIVING YOU A CHICE AT BOOT. > Of course -- also the FreeBSD booting method is superior after the FreeBSD choice is made -- it actually reads the filesystem using the filesystem metadata. Lilo uses a hokey fixed address scheme scheme. You can arrange to boot FreeBSD/WinNT/Dos as needed. John
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