From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 20 17:05:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16373 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16364 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-109-176.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.109.176]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA15281; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:04:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36561163.53ADEEE5@aei.ca> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:03:31 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lotfy CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question References: <000001be14de$41a3c660$500923c7@z2v8a4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Lotfy wrote: > > I was curious, im new to unix world, working mainly with netware and nt, but > am very interested in learning and using unix, I once heard that you can run > dos and windows apps, in a unix environment... is that true?. I once new > this guy, who was running a unix system, and he switched between unix, > windows and NT... is this somehow possible?? > > Please let me know as what the truth is.. > > Thanks much > > Mark Hi 1) I don't have experience with emulation. 2) I think FreeBSD can run dos applications by dos emulations. For the MS-Windows 95-98 emulation, it's in development and I don't think you should rely on this. 3) Yes you can have more that one OS on the same hard disk and you need to "multi-boot" them. When you will turn on your computer, you will see a small message like: F1: Windows F2: FreeBSD And press F1 or F2.. See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ226.html#226 http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message