From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 15:43:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE4937B695 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [38.38.130.68] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AC5C295600CC; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:42:36 -0400 Message-ID: <39037C75.5022617F@picusnet.com> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:43:01 -0400 From: "William D. Freeman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Lyles Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time user References: <000801bfacab$6f181ea0$a90421d0@mechwarrior> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bill Lyles wrote: > > Is BSD compatible with windows 95? No, but this isn't really a lose (atleast not from my pov). However you can read/write FAT file systems (DOS/Windows), and there are DOS emulatores and a Windows emulators, and VMWare which allows you to (for all intensive purposes) run Windows as a UNIX application on it's own virtual machine. Each is in variouse states of compleatness. > can it be installed with Windows95? Windows can also be on the hard disk, and you can use DOS rawrite to make boot floppies. > Can I use it as a dual boot with windows95? Yes, read the Shared OS Installation in the online handbook, or in the printed manual "The Complete FreeBSD" > > Thanks > -- William D. Freeman http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s+:++ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E- W-- N o-- K- w--- O---- M- V- PS--- PE+ Y-- PGP 5-- X+ R tv++ b+ DI++++ D--- G-- e- h! r !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message