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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing Freebsd Date: 5 Jun 1996 20:54:27 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4p4s63$ofd@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <01bb52f7.3f7ee0a0$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <01bb52f7.3f7ee0a0$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU>, Henriette <mkhali01@west.isd77.k12.mn.us> wrote: >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 Yes, there are lots of people who have successfully installed FreeBSD on this kind of machine. >PPP account for internet use would it be good to switch to freebsd? Yep, I use PPP under FreeBSD all the time 8-) Just to answer the other questions you posted:- FreeBSD can co-exist quite happily with Windows95, and every other PC operating system that I know of, but it does need to have its own "partition" - you can't just install it on top of Win95, unfortunately. Nor can FreeBSD run Win95 programs - there is a project called "WINE" that aims to get Win3.1 programs running on Unix, but I believe it's still got some way to go. The best thing is probably to re-partition your disk, making you've got all your Win95 stuff safely backed up first! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org