From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 19:19:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA05674 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vulcan.nextfrontier.net (2093771.nextfrontier.net [209.3.77.1] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05666 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars (mars.nextfrontier.net [209.3.77.10]) by vulcan.nextfrontier.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA02737 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:23:51 GMT Message-ID: <341EF94A.77DC@nextfrontier.net> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:25:30 +0100 From: icon X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: msdos/winnt4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi guys - I'm running msdos 6.22 and windows NT 4.0 on my pc at home. occasionally I login to my freebsd server and instead of using telnet I'd like to be able to use Xwindows that comes on the walnut creek freebsd 2.2.2 cdrom. My question is - is it possible to install freebsd on my home pc without screwing up my life? I just am nervous that trying to install FreeBSD on a partition will screw up my NT settings or who knows what. When it comes to having faith that NT will work without tripping over any changes I make, HAH! I've have absolutely gotten sick to death of having to completely reinstall and reconfigure windows (any version - as they are all quirky) over and over everytime it burps. One of these days I'd like to get rid of all Microsoft Products on my PC's - but many programs I have to work with for my job only work under MS windows. I'm currently running DOS6.22 and Windows NT 4.0 and all files are FAT. I've got a Cyrix 686-166+ on a Tyan motherboard with 32 meg edo memory. A 2.5 gig quantum bigfoot hard drive with an ATI 3D RAGE II video card. By the way I'm basically a newbie to FreeBSD - BUT I LOVE IT! I wish you guys would go commercial and blow bill gates and NT right out of the water. If I had to choose between giving FreeBSD or MS $700+ for server software I'd rather give it to you guys any day of the year.