From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 15:56:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01903 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01886 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id PAA20380; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:56:39 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id PAA06564; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 15:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Brandon Shepherd cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <19980505212303.13623.qmail@hotmail.com> 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, 5 May 1998, Brandon Shepherd wrote: >I have a question the installation of FreeBSD. >I am currently running an MS-DOS system with Windows 95. >Will installing FreeBSD require the formatting of the hard drive? No. >Can you have the FreeBSD OS exist along with my current OSes? Yes. You will need to provide some disk space in a seperate DOS partition in order to do so. I have a 2 gig IDE that is half w95 and half FreeBSD. >I would like to install it on my PC, but if I cannot keep my old OSes >along with it I may purchase a separate computer to use FreeBSD on. See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html for more info. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message