Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:42:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kevin Stanton <kevstanton@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your OS, questions Message-ID: <19980214134258.40789@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980214030348.17687.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Kevin Stanton on Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 07:03:48PM -0800 References: <19980214030348.17687.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 13 February 1998 at 19:03:48 -0800, Kevin Stanton wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > Hello. I'm interested in learning UNIX, and someone told me > that your version of UNIX was free and a great OS to learn on. What I > was wondering is, I have a PII-300MHz, with 128 megs of ECC SDRAM. I > have an 8.4 gigabyte EIDE UltraATA harddrive, and it's partitioned into > a C: D: E: & F: drives. The E: drive is completely empty, and I was > wondering if I could run FreeBSD on that E: drive, and keep my C:, D: & > F: intact for Windows 95 B use. Almost. The trouble is that most PCs can only boot from the first two disks (this is a BIOS limitation, not a FreeBSD limitation). This would translate to the Microsoft partition C: or D:. I'd suggest that you move the contents of your Microsoft partion D: to E:, and install FreeBSD on D:. Hopefully they're close enough to the same size not to be a problem. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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