From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 06:56:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA22031 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 06:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA22026 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 06:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from discovery.brad.ac.uk (root@discovery.brad.ac.uk [143.53.2.7]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id GAA09165 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 06:56:20 -0700 Received: from morph.acc.brad.ac.uk (user root) by discovery.brad.ac.uk; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:53:26 +0100 Received: from dcsun4 (irpurdie@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk [143.53.30.3]) by morph.acc.brad.ac.uk (8.7.2) with SMTP id OAA07850 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:56:04 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <31CE9DD5.7B4E@comp.brad.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:53:25 +0100 From: MAD Mosher Organization: University of Bradford X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot partition? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm very interested in nabbing FreeBSD for use at home. We've got 4 machines in the house (one Atari with Linux, and three PCs (one Windows3.1, one DOS6.22 and one OS/2!)) and some spare 386 motherboards. Basically, would it be possible, using network cards, to get all four of these to 'talk' to a 386 running FreeBSD? I don't want to take up all your time asking you how, just simply is it? Also, it sounds like a nice OS that I'd like to consider myself, but I also like DOS. Is it possible, like Linux, to get FreeBSD to install it's own boot sector and to ask the user which OS to use at boot time? Thanks for any help you can give - certainly looks like a nice alternative to memory and disc-hungry Linux! Cheers, Mosh -- I.R.Purdie@comp.brad.ac.uk a.k.a. MAD Mosher a.k.a. That Long-haired Git Rock DJ on RamAir 945AM/98FM (Yorkshire Cable) Also, check out my WWW Music Page at http://www.brad.ac.uk/~irpurdie/MusicPage