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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on Win95 system (no pre-existing unix OS present)
Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:12:36 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jmac@pnc.com.au (JM) wrote:

> Can someone explain how to install XFree86 3.2 release on a Win95
> system - there is no pre-existing Unix OS on the system, ...

You can't.  X11 is a Unix windowing system (although there's an OS/2
version available now).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)