Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:01:51 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: jdoe <jdoe@gwu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two operating systems Message-ID: <14516.1135.694917.429219@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <123063834@toto.iv>
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[ On Wednesday, February 23, jdoe wrote: ] > I'm interested in learning unix, but i want to keep windows 98 as my > main OS. Is that possible if i download your version of unix, and how > might i go about doing it > jester @gwu.edu > Yes, quite easy. I dual boot with win98 on my machine now. Be sure to go to http://www.freebsd.org/ and read the FAQ and Handbook entries from TOP to BOTTOM before starting. Learn a little bit about FreeBSD before diving in. As far as downloading FreeBSD, you can certainly just download the floppies from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/floppies and can do a network install. However, I suggest getting yourself a copy of the CDs--it makes installation a lot quicker and all the ports/packages of add-on software are there without having to be downloaded. Also, BE SURE to have very recent backups of your win98 data. In my experience, you will have to create a least 2 partitions on your HDD. One for win98 (the primary partition on the 1st drive) and the other for FreeBSD. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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