Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:34:08 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <200201260934538.SM01304@there> In-Reply-To: <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com> References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Saturday 26 January 2002 01:03 am, Terry Lambert banged out on the keys: > Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Dual-boot configurations are really not necessary today. Even the > > cheapest second-hand PC will run FreeBSD quite nicely, so there isn't any > > reason not to run it on a separate, dedicated machine. If you need both > > Windows and FreeBSD, just use one machine for each. > > Works great in a one room apartment. Also works great if you > aren't a geek, and only want to own one computer, or are a > student, who has to have a Windows machine for classwork, but > would like to have a UNIX to work/learn on, too. There is another possibility not yet mentioned - vmware. I have set up systems at work that run (spec'd by the developers) redhat linux and vmware with win2000 in the vm. My experience was that this works real well. Both OS's have full network access to each other and the 'outside' world. This also saves the extra work of setting up a dual-boot system. Granted, sometimes setting up vmware can be just as much work. Soon as I get a larger hard drive I'm going to do that on my workstation, FBSD with W2K in the vm. -- Chip <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200201260934538.SM01304>