Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:09:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jacobson@nevada.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix+pcclone+Xwindows? (fwd) Message-ID: <199512261609.RAA09481@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512261232.MAA23730@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> from "Pedro A M Vazquez" at Dec 26, 95 12:32:03 pm
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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. ;-)
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