From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 21 02:16:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20338 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 02:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ic.utando.com (qmailr@ic.utando.com [208.208.120.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA20328 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 02:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706210916.CAA20328@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 2944 invoked from network); 21 Jun 1997 09:16:07 -0000 Received: from ppp7.utando.com (HELO aly-dharshi) (208.208.120.17) by ic.utando.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 1997 09:16:07 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Aly Sadrudin Pirbhai Dharshi" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:16:01 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: FreeBSD X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Aly Sadrudin Pirbhai Dharshi" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: urgent X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I am a Computer Science 1st year really interested in using unix on my notebook. Well I have been torn between linux and freebsd and someone suggested that I try freebsd. Well I had some questions and I thought of asking them. Well my machine is a toshiba tecra 720cdt with a P133 and 16 megs of edo ram with approx 132 mb free on my HD. Well I am currently running win95 and I am abit jittery about installing unix but i am not a fan either of win95. I am really scared of partitioning my HD in fear of losing all my software and data. I am also quite curious about the win95-freebsd co-exsistance. How do they co-exsist? Will I be able to run some/most of my win95 programs on freebsd? What about the shut down of the machine which win95 does for me automatically how does freebsd do that? Does it support advanced power management? Well kindly answer these questions please!! Hoping to hear from you soon, Aly Dharshi. -------- Aly Dharshi dharshi@iconnect.co.ke dharshi@utando.com alydharshi@geocities.com