Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 23:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: jlrobins@zappa.cs.uncc.edu To: TKH@altagas.altagas.ca (Tim K. Hodgson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows 95 Compatability Message-ID: <9601190443.AA07101@zappa.cs.uncc.edu> In-Reply-To: <9600188220.AA822008665@altagas.altagas.ca> from "Tim K. Hodgson" at Jan 18, 96 10:44:25 am
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> Question 1 - Am I correct in assuming that the FreeBSD installation > will provide a boot-manager that will allow me to select the operating > system to be run? Yes -- It is called 'booteasy'. > > Question 2 - Can I install FreeBSD on a Windows 95 PC? If you mean a PC that has W95 on it, then yes. You just have to have some free (unpartioned) disk space -- BSD needs to live in its own area on the hard drive. I have machines that will boot into either W95, WNT, or FreeBSD. Odds are that your entire hard drive is partitioned for DOS / W95. You'll have to defrag, bubble all your files to the low end of the disk, then run something like FIPS to repartion your drive, giving Microsoft not the entire disk. James James Robinson Phone: (704) 547-4876 Department of Computer Science FAX: (704) 547-3516 UNC Charlotte email: jlrobins@uncc.edu Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 System Administrator
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