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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:27:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nick <yoda@calwest.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: two OS's  
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108202652.8085S-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199701090200.SAA21099@server.thegrid.net>

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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Nick wrote:

> PLEASE HELP!!!	
> 
> I have one hard drive (2.5 G) and it's already cut into two. A 
> 1.5 gig and a 1 gig.  this computer came this way because of 
> it's disk controller. I am pretty sure it's MS-DOS partitioned. 
>  And formatted for MS-DOS.  Could I somehow install FreeBSD 
> from CD-ROM into the 1 gig and have the other for Win95(for 
> other family members). And have both bootable???	

No.  FreeBSD's root partition must be below ~500MB on most systems.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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