From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 16:09:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07165 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inhaler.noopy.org (nvp.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.50.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA07093 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nvp@mediaone.net) From: nvp@mediaone.net Received: (qmail 4974 invoked by uid 603); 22 Sep 1998 00:11:24 -0000 Message-ID: <19980922001124.4973.qmail@inhaler.noopy.org> Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: <36069F51.D61A05EC@cts.com> from SinTaX98 at "Sep 21, 98 11:47:46 am" To: mmarsman@cts.com (SinTaX98) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:11:24 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hi there, I am currently a student at SDSU and there they use Unix, and > I am interested in learning all about it, and I thought that if I put it Excellent! :-) > on one of my systems that I could achieve a better undersanding of the > system. Yes, running your own Unix machine with root access is a great way to learn things by breaking stuff, then fixing stuff, installing and uninstalling then reinstalling. :-) :-) > Anyways I am wondering if FreeBSD is really what I should be after. Definitely. > Another question I have is Can I install FreeBSD and still be > able set it up so that I can run my windows system, or it with relative > ease. Yes. Just read the FreeBSD installation guide thoroughly before proceeding, and make sure that you've backed up anything/everything important before committing any partitions, etc. I had my system up in no time -- back when 2.0.x was still kicking around; it's even easier now. :-) -- Nate Patwardhan, System Administrator O'Reilly and Associates nvp@oreilly.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message