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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!news.eds.co.nz!usenet From: Marc Priebee <Marc.Priebee@nz.eds.com> Subject: Re: BSD and Win95 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: genen@pobox.com Sender: usenet@nz.eds.com (Usenet News Admin) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: EDS (New Zealand) Limited Message-ID: <32AB21D0.41C67EA6@nz.eds.com> References: <32A7C8EC.3DB7@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: gypsy.comms.nz.eds.com Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:15:12 GMT Lines: 27 I did just this at home. I put FreeBSD on a second hard disk and installed the FreeBSD bootmanager to dual boot win95 or Freebsd, and it works fine. Marc genen@pobox.com wrote: > > I have a p166 with 2 1.2 gig HDs in it. The first on ehas Win95 and > prorams. The second is emplty right now. I was thinking of using that > for BSD. > > Can I install BSD on the second (D) drive or do I need to partition my C > drive to install BSD? Is it worth dual booting? Should I just buy a > cheap box to run BSD solo? > > I want to run it to putz around and relearn unix (I know C++). > > If this is in the FAQ, let me know! > > Thanx -- Marc Priebee Ph. 64 4 474-5857 Systems Engineer (Communications) Fax. 64 4 495-0473 EDS (New Zealand) Limited Email. Marc.Priebee@nz.eds.com