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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!peg.apc.org!usenet From: "Hanns B. Wetzel" <hbw@interbay.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Whatever...Help Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 12:05:46 +0000 Organization: InterBayNet Lines: 44 Sender: hbw@peg.apc.org Message-ID: <3191DF9A.2781E494@interbay.net.au> References: <mele-2204960810390001@dial-1.r2.gastbo.infoave.net> <SCOTTE.96May2085010@odie.center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: t61.dialup.peg.apc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com> L. Scott Emmons wrote: > > In article <mele-2204960810390001@dial-1.r2.gastbo.infoave.net> mele@goldstag.com (Melvin C. Etheridge) writes: > > > First would someone tell me where I can get FreeBSD off of the net > > (I have a direct connection so dl time is not a factor)? > > How about ftp.freebsd.org. The CDROM is well worth it's cost, > though... Especially since, unless you've already installed it before, > you will probably end up installing it more than once. > > > Second, can you say install FreeBSD on one drive and leave say Win95 > > on another and switch boot between them? > > Yep. FreeBSD comes with a simple boot manager, but there are others - > freeware, shareware, and payware. > > -scotte > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > L. Scott Emmons |CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA > (916)939-6088 |>> Standard disclaimer applies. Views are my << > scotte@center.uscs.com |>> own, not those of U.S. Computer Services. << Have FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my second hard drive and DOS/Windows 3.11 on my first. The boot manager that came with FreeBSD nicely handles booting. Now I want to install Windows 95 on my first hard drive and leave the second as is. I understand the FreeBSD boot manager resides in the MBR on drive 1 and that Windows 95 may overwrite this. Is there a way from preventing Windows 95 from doing this, or are my concerns unfounded. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thnks in advance. Hanns -- _____________________________________________________________________ Hanns B. Wetzel (hbw@interbay.net.au) Hervey Bay Qeensland, Australia Tel (071) 25 2872___________________________________Fax (071) 28 1877