From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 14:24:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DDDF37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EBC43E4A for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikemcg@ucla.edu) Received: from pool0667.cvx26-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.152.157] helo=NEELIX) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18O3es-0002nN-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:24:18 -0800 Message-ID: <012001c2a551$e4edd100$1a00a8c0@HOME> Reply-To: "Mike McGranahan" From: "Mike McGranahan" To: References: <003001c2a503$fc39b340$1a00a8c0@HOME> <20021216151817.GA599@raggedclown.net> <20021216174520.67C1E3AE3@server2.fastmail.fm> <027701c2a531$4d1b23c0$0300000a@lyon> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:24:26 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Instead of going through a lot of quirky Windows headaches and fixes, you can get a second > computer and divide the OSs on them. Second hand computers with monitors go for $150, > complete. If you have been in computers for a while, you probably have a lot of old > cards, etc. just lying around. You will save yourself a lot of time. That is probably > worth more than the $150, right there. I do have a couple second hand Pentium computers, on which I've been learning FreeBSD. But I'm transitioning to using FreeBSD as my primary environment on my main computer, and I need to keep Windows XP until I'm completely comfortable with FreeBSD. Unfortunately Windows XP would never run on a Pentium, so I have to dual-boot during this transition. Mike P.S. Sorry for any duplicate emails, I forgot to use Reply All. =/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message