Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:26:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: youcangetabhishek@yahoo.com (Abhishek Kumar) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <200305061726.h46HQq8d000781@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030506165515.15313.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> from "Abhishek Kumar" at May 06, 2003 09:55:14 AM
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> > I want to ask weather i can use windows with freeBSD on the same hard disk > but different partitions on a Intel Pentium III Processor or not. The answer is yes. It is called 'dual booting' (even if you have three or four different OSes). A couple of things just to be clear: The term that BSD UNIX uses is "slice". (Then within each slice there can be up to 8 UNIX partitions a-h although 4 partitions have designated or traditional uses that should be maintained - a is used for root on the boot slice, b is used for swap on any/all slices, c refers to the whole unpartitioned slice, d is something special that doesn't seem to get used and I don't remember what it was on our old SUNs, et al) Microsoft uses the word partition to mean the same thing as the BSD UNIX 'slice'. The slice[MS partition] is on the disk, not the processor (which is what I think you meant to say above). Look in the FreeBSD Handbook which you can read online, download or buy for informatino on dual booting FreeBSD with other OSes. > I also want to ask how to install GUI for FreeBSD. i am a Qualified > programmer and i want to help in the development of FreeBSD. Someone else will be able to say more about GUI-s in FreeBSD better that I can. ////jerry > Thanking You Abhishek > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > _______________________________________________ > 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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