From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 10:26:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84E537B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 10:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EA543FB1 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 10:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h46HQrOg000782; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:26:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h46HQq8d000781; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:26:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200305061726.h46HQq8d000781@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: youcangetabhishek@yahoo.com (Abhishek Kumar) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:26:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20030506165515.15313.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> from "Abhishek Kumar" at May 06, 2003 09:55:14 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Questions about FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:26:55 -0000 > > I want to ask weather i can use windows with freeBSD on the same hard disk > but different partitions on a Intel Pentium III Processor or not. The answer is yes. It is called 'dual booting' (even if you have three or four different OSes). A couple of things just to be clear: The term that BSD UNIX uses is "slice". (Then within each slice there can be up to 8 UNIX partitions a-h although 4 partitions have designated or traditional uses that should be maintained - a is used for root on the boot slice, b is used for swap on any/all slices, c refers to the whole unpartitioned slice, d is something special that doesn't seem to get used and I don't remember what it was on our old SUNs, et al) Microsoft uses the word partition to mean the same thing as the BSD UNIX 'slice'. The slice[MS partition] is on the disk, not the processor (which is what I think you meant to say above). Look in the FreeBSD Handbook which you can read online, download or buy for informatino on dual booting FreeBSD with other OSes. > I also want to ask how to install GUI for FreeBSD. i am a Qualified > programmer and i want to help in the development of FreeBSD. Someone else will be able to say more about GUI-s in FreeBSD better that I can. ////jerry > Thanking You Abhishek > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >