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From: karl@idiom.com (Karl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Some questions about FreeBSD
Date: 9 Jul 1997 18:22:11 -0700
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In article <33C3E848.BBF308F8@sover.net>, Derek  <destey@sover.net> wrote:
> Currently, I am a win95 user. I am also a student. I am thinking of
> installing FreeBSD onto my computer. I have a few questions:
> 
> Will it interfere with win95?
> How does it deal with existing msdos/win95 partitions?
> Can I uninstall it?
> Is a book on unix worth buying?
> Is there any way this can mess up my computer?
> What about linux?

Get it!

I'm an undecided beginner too, so I split my hard disk in three equal
size partitions between win95, linux slackware and freebsd, using linux 
lilo as the boot manager, and everthing (that is, freebsd and linux,) 
works just fine.  Lilo is just a little confusing as it insists on 
calling freebsd a "dos partition," but otherwise works just fine, just 
make sure the linux partition is the first partition listed in lilo.conf,
and let the linux or freebsd disk manager overwrite the win95 partiton
sector.