From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 08:30:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA14785 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA14766 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA04505; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:27:47 +0200 (IST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:27:47 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: E-HACK cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD In-Reply-To: <199610150536.WAA00291@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, E-HACK wrote: > I need some help, I run windows3.11 on my(parents) computer right now, if I > install freeBSD, will I still be able to use windows? If I can't, I'll have > to wait until I get my own computer(hopefully in the next six months) the > biggest reason that I'm getting freeBSD is so that I can learn more about > UNIX(like) systems, I plan to work in the feild of computers when I'm older, > and hopefully run an ISP, so I felt that freeBSD would be the logical place > to at least start. Thank you, any info would be very appreciated. > E-HACK Well, you can run FreeBSD with other OS's from the same disk using a boot manager. You do need free (unpartitioned) space on the hard disk, and preferably have about 20MB of it in the first half-gig of the disk (if it's an IDE or EIDE disk). If your whole disk is dedicated to WFWG, you may use a utility called fips that comes with FreeBSD to free up some space (though I prefer PartitionMagic, but that's commercial and costs ~$50). You may want to read the chapter on installation in the freebsd handbook, as well as the multi-os tutorial (both are under http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html). > > _______ _ _ ____ _________ _ __ > | \____/ | | | | / /\ \ / ________\ | | / / > | / | | | | | | | | | |_______/ | | / / > | \____ ___ | |____| | / /____\ \ | | | |/ / > | /____| |___|| |____| | | |______| | | | | |\ \ > | \ | | | | / / \ \ | |_______ | | \ \ > | /____ | | | | | | | | | |_______\ | | \ \ > |_\____\ |_| |_| /_/ \_\ \________/ |_| \_\ > > epicurus@deathsdoor.com > http://www.angelfire.com/pages0/ehack/ > http://members.tripod.com/~epicurus/ > > Nadav