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#! rnews 1623 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.uoregon.edu!xmission!calweb!not-for-mail From: "Sam Carpenter" <carps@calweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Win95 - easy question :) Date: 18 Jan 1997 18:33:08 GMT Organization: CalWeb Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <01bc056e$15b5aae0$2480adcf@riza> References: <32E0996E.4927@he.ne> NNTP-Posting-Host: sac2-36.calweb.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34002 FreeBSD will not run concurrently with Windows95 on the same machine. You can only have one OS at a time running on a x86 machine. I have Windows95 and FreeBSD "loaded" on my system and when it boots I am presented with a menu to select which OS I want to run (the menu is Boot Manager from IBM). But the only connection between the two OS's is that I can mount the MSDOS file system from within FreeBSD (as long as you are not running Windows95 with FAT32). Windows95 has no idea what is going on with the FreeBSD partition. I am also interested in setting up a FreeBSD web server. I am looking for a second system for FreeBSD (probably an inexpensive 486 system). The cool thing about working with two systems is that I will get to fool around with networking Windows95 and Unix. Hell, I might get really crazy and setup my DeskJet 500 as a network printer. ;-)