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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        William Cruz <gor@netwalk.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free BSD question
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970613152335.27535F-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <33921154.C7D618D1@netwalk.com>

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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, William Cruz wrote:
> I am trying to learn unix but I am running on a dos/win95 system. I was
> wondering if I boot my computer up using free BSD ,when I am done can I
> just reboot the computer under my old configurations or will freeBSD
> become my new OS .

As long as you install FreeBSD to a separate partition, ie, don't
overwrite you dos partition, they will happily co-exist.

If you don't have another partition you *can* tell the install 
program to use your current dos partition in which case
FreeBSD does become your new OS.  No loss, IMO :)

Dan
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