From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 14:16:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03072 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hq.globix.net (hq.globix.net [206.139.190.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03067 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkatsnel@globix.com) Received: from globix.com (mescalito.globix.net [209.208.255.42]) by hq.globix.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Cleen) with ESMTP id RAA10899; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:15:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36968428.95DA5BDE@globix.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 17:18:17 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Globix Corp. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Scott CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and other OS's References: <3696829D.EA9F254B@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Scott wrote: > > I have Win98 and I love it, I wanna just try freeBSD for a small while. > If I like it I may keep it. My question is can I install it to another > partition of my drive, can I keep everything the way it is. What I want > to do is turn on my comp and then load into windows. Then when I want to > use Free BSD I can shut down windows and then load freebsd. Is FreeBSD a > GUI? > > Gunslinger FreeBSD *is* not a GUI, but it does have one, X-Windows. You can install FreeBSD on another partition of your drive, and have a choice of which OS to boot at boot time. See www.freebsd.org for further information on how to do this. Hope this helps, Roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message