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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD
To: shaffinb@gandalf.matrikon.ab.ca (Shaffin Bhanji)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:38:01 -0500 (EST)
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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