Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:41:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: trager@wrair-emh1.army.mil Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid Compatibility questions Message-ID: <199602241841.LAA27731@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602240023.QAA22799@freefall.freebsd.org> from "trager@wrair-emh1.army.mil" at Feb 23, 96 07:19:00 pm
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> The Iris workstation I do all my development work on is being sent to some > twit in California so he and my division CO can 'video teleconference'. In > other words, they want to play X-Tank (such are the privileges of rank). > Therefore, I am looking for a unix variant that I can install and run on one > of the myriad PC's here. FreeBSD has come highly reccommended to me and > looks very impressive from the information I have received about it, but > there are a few questions about it that I haven't found answers to in the FAQ > or other documents I have. Well, among other things, you can run VAT and 'video teleconference' using a "quiccam". 8-). > 1. I want to install it on a Pentium with an Enhanced IDE controller, > three Conner 1.2GB EIDE drives, and an IDE CD-ROM drive. Will your > operating system be able to use all three hard drives and the > CD-ROM? Additionally, will you OS support hard drive partitions > above 500 MB? It will support partitons above 500M, but it won't boot from them. You will have to turn off geometry translation in the BIOS unless the controller does the translation in firmaware instead of only in the BIOS. FreeBSD's "/" must reside entirely below the 1024 Cylinder mark. > 2. I have been told I can only install a new OS on one of the division > machines if it can exist simultaneously with the copy of Windows95 > currently on the machine (I HATE Windows95). This way other people > in the division will still be able to use the machine and it won't > be 'wasted' on the Unix OS. Is there a tool similiar to the OS/2 > boot manager for your operating system that will allow both > both operating systems to exist on the same machine? If so, will > the Windows partitions still be visible to the FreeBSD OS when > running FreeBSD and vice versa? The different operating systems > do not have to be on the same partition. There is a boot manager. Install Windows95 first. Get the boot selector DOS install program from the CDROM or the FTP site. From the Windows95 shutdown dialog, choose "shutdown to DOS prompt". Then install the boot manager. > 3. I know your OS supports TCP/IP. Does it also support Novell Netware > and/or the Windows for Workgroups protocol? It supports SMB directly by running Samba. It can route and use IPX, but won't support NetWare services directly without some work to port the publically available Linux code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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