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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Favorite app: Fdisk!
Date: 4 Aug 1995 01:46:00 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3vqknd$8hs@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>, Perry Grieb <c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> wrote:
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>(1) I want to try FreeBSD. I will get a unix OS back somehow.
Good plan.
>(2) I'll plan to get a 2.1R CD when it hatches (Walnut Creek).
Good plan.
>(2) Can the 2.0R release support (tollerate) OS/2 bootmanager?
There shouldn't be any problem. I originally dual-booted OS/2
Warp and FreeBSD 2.0 on one of the 486's here, using the OS/2 Boot
Manager. Since then, I've installed FreeBSD on a few other machines
whose owners wanted to keep Windows 3.1 around. In those cases, I was
able to install just the OS/2 boot manager, then FreeBSD on a free
partition. You have to fiddle a bit of OS/2's idea of a "startable"
filesystem, but it is doable and rather nice once you get it running.
>(3) Why is OS/2 such a pain in the #$%&#@!?
Because it was written by large, monolithic corporate types. :)
>(4) What do I do next to install FreeBSD?
Wait for the 2.1 CD-ROM, or get the 2.0.5 two-CD set now.
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Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org