Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:24:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windows 95 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960618222045.3641A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960617131451.31780A-100000@aeffle.Stanford.EDU>
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Howard Lew wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Flavio Sa wrote: > > Can Windows 95 and Free BSD share a computer? > > > > Should I follow the install.txt intructions considering DOS? > > > > Thanks, > > Not a new questions.... That setup should be fine. A boot manager should > take care of the problem.... backup your data first. Not necessarily true, I'm running two systems, which are nearly identical with the exception that one is running a Cyrix 586 and the other a Pentium 100. I started from scratch, partitioned the drive and installed a base win95 system first, then I installed 2.1-R. I have had no END of problems with the 2.1-R system, from not being able to even RECOGNIZE a standard hitachi 4x speed IDE CDROM to failing out randomly at floppy reads (where the reads work fine on other 2.1-R systems--same disks). Fearing a hardware problem I sent the computer to a shop for some diagnostics, all returned fine. I'm not about to test it as far as soft/cold reboots from/to win95 and BSD. I can say one thing: AAARRRRGGGH!!!!! (You spend $1500 on a computer, it would be nice if it worked like you wanted it to :( -Brandon Gillespie
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