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#! rnews 2510 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!join.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!zetnet.co.uk!btnet-feed1!BTInternet!usenet From: "Dirc Evans" <fredirc@intonet.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some questions about FreeBSD Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 06:29:03 +0100 Organization: The workx Message-ID: <5q4gt4$8ue@argon.btinternet.com> References: <33C3E848.BBF308F8@sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: user3.intonet.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Lines: 53 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44273 Derek wrote in article <33C3E848.BBF308F8@sover.net>... >Currently, I am a win95 user. I am also a student. I am thinking of >installing FreeBSD onto my computer. I have a few questions: > >Will it interfere with win95? No, you can even read your DOS files from FreeBSD, although it is not yet VFAT compatible >How does it deal with existing msdos/win95 partitions? See comment above >Can I uninstall it? Yep >Is a book on unix worth buying? It comes with a whole library of suggested reading >Is there any way this can mess up my computer? As with anything, especially partioning disks, you can loose all your data! however, if you take the precaution of backing up everything you should be OK. I have put it on four Win95 machines with no problem >What about linux? what about it? Yes, you can have that as well! > >Any help would be much appreciated. :) >-- >!Notice!: In a few days/weeks I will be putting in a filter that deletes >all messages that do not have "Re:" or "Attn:" in the subject line. >Sorry for the inconvenience, but it is necessary to combat spammers. > > +-------------------------------------------+ > |Derek | > |web: http://www.sover.net/~restey/ | > +-------------------------------------------+ > ____ _____ ______ _____ _ _ _ >| _ \ | __) | _ \ | __) | | / / | | >| | \ \ | |_ | |_) | | |_ | | / / | | >| | \ \ | _) | _/ | _) | |/ / | | >| | / / | | | |\ \ | | | ( | | >| |_/ / | |__ | | \ \ | |__ | |\ \ _ >|____/ |_____) |_| \_\ |_____) |_| \_\ (_) >