Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:14:51 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Harold Hartley <wheelie207@gwi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd on windows Message-ID: <20090325141451.GA27116@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <49C98507.6040905@gwi.net> References: <49C98507.6040905@gwi.net>
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to > install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also runs MS-Win. The traditional way is to 'dual-boot' the machine. But, you can also install some virtual machine software and run both under that. You can also install wine and run MS-Win stuff on FreeBSD. There are some limits to that I think, but people do it. I run a dual (or triple) boot. It is documented in the handbook and works just fine. > I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live > in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to > choose what I want to boot into, such as windows or unbuntu and maybe a > freebsd choice. > > I don't always want to boot into windows, except for the 3 apps I have > to use windows for. Basically, that is what I do. Mostly I boot FreeBSD and use it for my desktop. But, sometimes I need to use Photoshop which I have on the MS-Win side and printing labels seems to work better with Word than Openoffice, so I boot MS-Win for those. ////jerry > > I do boot into ubuntu 90% of the time and enjoy it so much, but I have > read about freebsd and researched it fully and I wish I could be able to > run freebsd as with all the apps freebsd has to offer. I would love to > be able to install freebsd under windows so I could choose freebsd to > boot into when I want. > > I hope to hear from freebsd about my request, and by the way, I'm not a > linux expert so I don't know everything about linux, but I'm always > learning. > > Thanks > Harold Hartley > 158 Russell Street > Lewiston, Maine 04240 > wheelie207@gwi.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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