From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 17:23:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15356 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (nyc-ny76-05.ix.netcom.com [209.109.228.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15350 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA07632; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:22:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:22:22 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: bertodell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation floppy In-Reply-To: <365A01E5.B74C42E0@inetone.net> 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 Mon, 23 Nov 1998, bertodell wrote: > I created the installation floppy as suggested and I'm wondering if I > use it to see about compatiblity with my system it won't mess up my > Windows 95 system? I plan on installing freebsd via ftp. Of course I > will create a separate partition for freebsd. My main concern is if any > changes will be made booting the installation floppy disk.Your reply > would be appreciated If you boot the floppy, install FreeBSD in to it's own partition, and install a boot manager, all Winblows will do is change some drive lettering (basically, every drive letter after the one you allocated to FreeBSD will go down by one). -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message