From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 05:42:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01807 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 05:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA01654 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 05:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ylYZ5-0006J8-00; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:40:47 +0200 Message-ID: <19980615144047.A24219@cityip.co.za> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:40:47 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: mark puttnam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mark_puttnam@hotmail.com, ssomavar@ford.com Subject: Re: Regarding Database, and running it along with Windows 95 Mail-Followup-To: mark puttnam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mark_puttnam@hotmail.com, ssomavar@ford.com References: <199806121713.NAA21504@mailfw1.ford.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806121713.NAA21504@mailfw1.ford.com>; from mark puttnam on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:13:10PM -0400 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Standard disclaimer: You may or may not be aware that you posted your message to a public FreeBSD-related mailing list. I am in no way connected to the FreeBSD project. My answers are in no way official. You may receive many more replies from other people. :-) Having said that... On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 at 13:13 SAT, mark puttnam wrote: > > 1. I have a 6.3 Gig hard drive and have 3 drives on it , with Windows 95 > loaded in it. I assume that Windows 95 does have the DOS environment as > Windows 3.1 . Can I load freeBSD on my D drive deploy the operating > system there? Or would I have to reformat my entire system to load the > operating system? You need to dedicate a partition (or, if you wish, an entire drive) to FreeBSD. FreeBSD does not care much about what is to be found on other partitions or drives. > 2. Does FreeBSD have the features like OS/2 which can co exists with > Windows? Yes, including the ability to choose on bootup which OS you would like to load. > 3. How friendly is it to Databases? Very. > 4. Can I use MS Access with this operating system? No. > 5. Are their any free databases that I can use with the operating > system? A great many. The three most commonly encountered are MiniSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL. > 6. Is there a connectivity tool like (ODBC/JDBC) with freeBSD? That depends on the individual database used. In most cases, the answer would be "yes". > 7. Do we have a FreeBSD flavour of Javac? If you mean Java, the answer is yes. > 8. Can it talk to windows programs like MS Access or VB? That is application-dependent. You seem interested in application software available for FreeBSD. May I suggest you peruse http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ Also, see the documentation on the FreeBSD site at: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message