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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: kenobi@pobox.com (Obi-Wan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a WIN95 platform Date: 5 Jun 1996 17:26:04 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4p4fvc$fre@nntp1.best.com> References: <01bb52f6.6f8a7d00$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> Reply-To: kenobi@pobox.com (Obi-Wan) NNTP-Posting-Host: kenobi.vip.best.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.9d - NLS In <01bb52f6.6f8a7d00$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU>, Henriette <mkhali01@west.isd77.k12.mn.us> writes: >Hi, >I would just like to know, would it be wise to install Freebsd on a normal >486DX2-66MHz, with 16 mb of ram. If you are a advanced user that uses a >PPP account for internet use would it be good to switch to freebsd? It will, SCSI system would be best, although it should install smoothly on an IDE system (like mine). Make sure, if you have a proprietary CD-ROM, to check out the hardware compatibility listings, should be at www.freebsd.org. As far as PPP, FreeBSDs networking is much better than Win95s, a bit harder to set up and what not, but is good... >Hi, >I would like to install freebsd on a win95 platform, when I install >FreeBSD will it preserve all my windows95 setting? >Thanks for taking your time to read this message. >bye.... > I'm guessing you mean Win95 Partition, and simply, no. It can't be installed on a FAT partition. >Can any windows95 programs run smoothly under freebsd? Nope Obi-Wan -- http://pobox.com/~kenobi #Shadowrun Homepage http://pobox.com/~kenobi/SR/