From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 5:46:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C1E37B64C for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 05:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA66505 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:55:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <39044274.8289411A@wmptl.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:47:48 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com Organization: Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First Time User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD is 'compatable' with anything you so choose or set it up to be. If you mean will it run software made for Windows '95, the answer is not usually. There is an emulator, (wine), but it's not exactly stable. Some applications can function using wine, and some cannot. Generally speaking though, your outa luck. As far as dual booting goes; you're in-luck. FreeBSD comes with a boot mgr that will handle win95 partitions. It will give you the option to boot whichever partitions you have on your system at startup. Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match PLate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ > Bill Lyles wrote: > > Hi > > I'm a first timer at this but not a sranger to installations and such. > The only other operating systems I have installed are Windows95/98 > NT5.0 and Backoffice. > > Is BSD compatible with windows 95? > can it be installed with Windows95? > Can I use it as a dual boot with windows95? > > Thanks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message