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#! rnews 1562 bsd 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.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: blue_foo@ix.netcom.com(Travis Visser ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Will freeBSD install/run on my system? [PLEASE READ!!] Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:43:47 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4i6jej$k7q@cloner4.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stp-fl4-24.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Mar 13 5:43:47 AM PST 1996 I am thinking about installing FreeBSD v2.1, but before I spend the time and money to get the software, I would like to know if it will run/install ok on my system. A brief overview of my system: P-100 16 Megs ram Two Western Digital EIDE HD's 1.2gig, and 800 mg Adaptec AVA-1515 SCSI Host Adapter Sony SCSI CDROM (CDU 76S-81) Sound Blaster 16 Multi-CD ATI Mach 64 PCI video card Roland MPU-401 Currently, on drive C, I have DOS and WindowsNT. Can I keep those operating systems and install FreeBSD onto drive D? Also, Does FreeBSD have a boot loader to boot these other o/s? (I use NT's boot loader now) If anyone has any info, (do I need to install FreeBSD first, then DOS, ect, does FreeBSD support my hardware) that they would like to share with me, or any respone if my system may be able to run FreeBSD, please email me or reply back to this message here! It will be greatly appreciated!! Thanx! Travis Visser blue_foo@ix.netcom.com