Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: claysmith@upstate.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Dual-booting FreeBSD and Windows95??? Message-ID: <199606301547.LAA04996@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <31D62E65.543F@upstate.net> from "Clay R. Smith" at "Jun 30, 96 03:36:06 am"
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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
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