From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 11:16:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03571 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03565 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA04996; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:47:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301547.LAA04996@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Dual-booting FreeBSD and Windows95??? To: claysmith@upstate.net Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:47:11 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <31D62E65.543F@upstate.net> from "Clay R. Smith" at "Jun 30, 96 03:36:06 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Clay R. Smith wrote... [...] > > I was told that FreeBSD is capable of working alongside up to five other > operating systems. Is this true? My i486, 8mb IBM PS/1 computer is > equiped with a 850mb, software overlay-dependent drive and a 85mb drive. > Currently, I do not have a need for the second drive; therefore, I want > to make it my FreeBSD drive and remain using Windows95 on the other? Yes, though 85Mb is very tight. I once installed FreeBSD 2.1, with X in 100Mb (including 24Mb of swap), but that was a very tight squeeze. > > If possible, how can I do this? Also, are there utilities capable of > reading MSDOS diskettes for FreeBSD? The installation process will guide you through the details. FreeBSD is capable of reading / writing FAT disks, so sharing files with Win95 is normally easy. I'm not familiar with your system, nor with 'software overlay-dependent drives', so you may have some problems there. > > Thanks in advance, > -Clay R. Smith (claysmith@upstate.net) > > > P.S. If possible, could you reply as soon as possible, so that I will > have answer before I leave for vacation on July 1st. > Have a good time :-) John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key