From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 26 08:11:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA08497 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 08:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08490 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 08:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA21135; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:11:12 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA24138; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:11:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA09481; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:09:52 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512261609.RAA09481@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Unix+pcclone+Xwindows? (fwd) To: jacobson@nevada.edu Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:09:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512261232.MAA23730@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> from "Pedro A M Vazquez" at Dec 26, 95 12:32:03 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Pedro A M Vazquez wrote: > > Hello Hackers: > I got this one in comp.unix.questions and sent him a little > note about www.freebsd.org. > Anyone would like to contribute make him a new user :-) > > My regular programs from DOS and Windows won't work with it yet, though? > > I was hoping that all of my games and wordprocessors, etc. could still be > > used. (of course) Sorry, by now, only a limited subset of DOS programs (most text-based programs) would work under FreeBSD. > > Also, do you know whether I boot my computer as normal, but have > > a seperate configuration for FreeBSD so that if my programs don't work, I > > can still have DOS and Windows, or do I have to run strictly FreeBSD when > > I install it? i.e., can I run them either at the same time (DOS & > > FreeBSD) or one under the other? You can select between both systems at boot-time. The default installation offers you to install a so-called boot manager that allows you to select the operating system of your choice. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)