Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 16:49:35 -0700 (PDT) From: tim@print.gfmurray.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility with Win95? Message-ID: <199610262349.QAA07296@print.gfmurray.com>
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>Hi there. I've started downloading boot.flp and rawrite.exe >and I was wondering if FreeBSD is compatible with Windows95. >See, I want to run FreeBSD AND Windows95 together. >Will it trash Windows95 if I put on FreeBSD? Not necessarily, the idea is to put W95 and FBSD on different partitions on the same HD or on different HDs entirely and use a boot manager program to choose which OS you want to run......for a given operation. If you mount FBSD and W95 on entirely different machines, each machine will be fulfilling a different mission. Typically the W95 machine is a warm and fuzzy GUI for productivity/entertainment applications like word processing, DTP, and all the other wonderful "off the shelf" stuff. FBSD on the other hand, is an excellent platform to handle network connectivity to the Internet, general file storage (eg. SAMBA on the FBSD system to allow the W95 box to smoothly access drive space on the FBSD box). FBSD is outstanding for setting up basic WWW capability with Apache as the HTTP server, WUFTP as a ftp server, mail, etc. Having these functions separate from your W95 system is EXTREMELY advantageous...particularly since you DO NOT NEED A POWERFUL CPU TO RUN FBSD!!!! A 486/33 with 8 MB Ram and a 300 MB HD is a great little starter platform to poke around with ... you will be amazed what you can do with it :) Good luck AND DON"T BE DISCOURAGED!!!! THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS EXCEPT ONES WE ARE TOO STUPID TO ASK! BTW READ THE DOCS ---- READ THE DOCS ---- READ THE DOCS ------- RRRRRR EEEEEE A DDDD R R E A A D D RRRRR E AAAAA D D R EEE A A D D R R E A A D D R R EEEEEE A A DDDDD Check out WWW.FreeBSD.com and the Documentation area >Just wondering... >Dave :) >I'll wait for a reply before a rawrite boot.flp > > > > > Tim Baird Dominus Fecit "The Lord Made" Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer etc. etc
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