From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 8: 2: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95C937B91B for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:02:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.19 2000/01/29 00:15:43 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id JAA27744; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:01:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id JAA08849; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:01:50 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id LAA07888; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:01:51 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14516.1135.694917.429219@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:01:51 -0700 (MST) To: jdoe Subject: Re: two operating systems In-Reply-To: <123063834@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.11 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Wednesday, February 23, jdoe wrote: ] > I'm interested in learning unix, but i want to keep windows 98 as my > main OS. Is that possible if i download your version of unix, and how > might i go about doing it > jester @gwu.edu > Yes, quite easy. I dual boot with win98 on my machine now. Be sure to go to http://www.freebsd.org/ and read the FAQ and Handbook entries from TOP to BOTTOM before starting. Learn a little bit about FreeBSD before diving in. As far as downloading FreeBSD, you can certainly just download the floppies from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/floppies and can do a network install. However, I suggest getting yourself a copy of the CDs--it makes installation a lot quicker and all the ports/packages of add-on software are there without having to be downloaded. Also, BE SURE to have very recent backups of your win98 data. In my experience, you will have to create a least 2 partitions on your HDD. One for win98 (the primary partition on the 1st drive) and the other for FreeBSD. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message