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Date:      Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Costa <mcosta@peakaccess.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bsd question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727210422.6107C-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <33DA7FA9.8D1@peakaccess.net>

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On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Michael Costa wrote:

> hello my name is mike and i have a pentium pc.  i already have win 95
> and all that jazz on one hard drive of 2.1g. i have annother hd 0f 170
> meg. can i install bsd on the smaller hd and keep the other stuff of the
> 2g hd? and if i can how do i make a prompt to choose to go into bsd or
> windows?  if you can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

You can get FreeBSD onto a 170mb volume if you limit yourself to the most
basic distributions and don't install the X Window System.  FreeBSD comes
with a boot selector you can install that will allow you to select between
Windows and FreeBSD on startup.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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