From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 15:01:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20631 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.lamere.net (orion.lamere.net [209.64.1.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20448 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wanderer@lamere.net) Received: from [209.64.56.73] by orion.lamere.net (NTMail 3.03.0017/7.aa01) with ESMTP id ba789309 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 17:50:49 -0500 From: "wanderer" To: Subject: Curiosity made me send this. Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 17:48:57 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <22504908603831@lamere.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG May I ask you some questions? How would you compare FREEBSD to LInux? I have a Syquest parallel 270MB removable hard drive. Will that work with BSD? I have a SCSI HP T4000 Travan tape drive. Will that work? I have a SCSI Syquest 1.5Gig. removable hard drive on the same line. Will that work? I have an SCSI HP IIcx color scanner on the same line. Will that work? I'm pretty sure that a joystick would work. Please correct me if I am wrong. I have a Star NX2450 24pin Rainbow printer. Does FreeBSD support that? How about and Epson Stylus Color Bubble Jet printer? I understand that FreeBSD is great for networking, but I wonder if it would support the NIC card that I am using. The brand was listed, but not that model number. The card runs on the PCI bus.It was not listed in your writeup. I do know that it will support the one NE2000 16 bit card that I have. What I am concerned about it that I would be losing the capability of using most of my local resources, because BSD doesn't support it. I was also wondering about dual booting. Does FreeBSD support that, or must it solely be the only operating system on the hard drive? Does BSD boot up from the hard-drive, or is it from a floppy? Linux supports running Windows 3.x 16 bit software via a program designed for that purpose. Does FreeBSD have the same capability? Thank you Gil Boisvert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message