Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:06:10 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "Netscape 4.0" <king@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC with multiple Operating Systems Message-ID: <33F80272.5A0D@barcode.co.il> References: <33F7F185.77F11250@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu>
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Netscape 4.0 wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a computer with about 1.6 and 3.0 Gig disk drives, > partitioned into 250-300 MB partitions. I have Windows 3.1 > and Linux installed, and will soon add Windows95 and perhaps > Windows NT. I would like also to add FreeBSD since I am > not entirely happy with Linux. However I can't find documentation > to answer the following questions: > > 1. Can FreeBSD easily coexist with the other Operating systems? > Can I boot FreeBSD from DOS; can I boot FreeBSD from > floppy and switch / to the hard disk? Yes, No, Yes. There's no problem with booting FreeBSD from the WinNT boot manager, from lilo, from its own boot manager, the OS/2 boot manager and many others. > 2. Can FreeBSD read DOS FAT files, can FreeBSD read Linux > ext2 systems Yes. Yes. > 3. I can use fdisk from Linux to create partitions > readable from DOS and Linux. Will FreeBSD recognize > these partitions? See (2) above. > > Answers, or pointers to documentation that answers, the above > questions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanking you in advance > > King Lee These questions (and probably most of the others you'll have as you start your way with FreeBSD) are addressed in the Handbook, the FAQ, the tutorials (especially the multi-operating system tutorial) and the mail archives, where the questions and answers asked in the past on this list are stored. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html Nadav
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