Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:54:39 -0500 From: "Keyes, Randall" <randall.keyes@jnli.com> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Thanks for help with the Tri-boot and the "Linux or Unix" questio ns Message-ID: <C791322F42A1D411ADA60008C786B646094EAC@mail9.jacksonnational.com>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C080A6.24E1773A Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Last week I asked about whether to learn FreeBSD or Linux along with Win2000 (I'm an "NT" guy now---hey, I didn't know any better, OK?) for my employer. The general response was: learn both. I installed W2k server on my home machine with two primary partitions installing W2k to the first, FreeBSD to the second, and the remaining space I made an extended partition for game, ah, er training storage for W2k. I then took a second hard drive and tried to install Corel Linux on it. This is evidently a "dumbed-down" version of Debian. Unfortunately, it was too old to recognize the Voodoo3 and so Corel is sending me their latest kernel. "BootEasy" automatically "discovered" the second hard drive and would boot Linux, if the Linux OS would have worked. It does an excellent job with a dual-boot between W2k and FreeBSD. Thanks again for all the helpful comments I received. Now the fun begins... :) One last parting question: My employer likes certifications. Does FreeBSD have any, or is that a silly question? Thanks again, Randy Randy Keyes Network Services, JNL randall.keyes@jnli.com ------_=_NextPart_001_01C080A6.24E1773A Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>Last week I asked about whether to learn FreeBSD or Linux along with Win2000 (I'm an "NT" guy now---hey, I didn't know any better, OK?) for my employer. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>The general response was: learn both.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>I installed W2k server on my home machine with two primary partitions installing W2k to the first, FreeBSD to the second, and the remaining space I made an extended partition for game, ah, er training storage for W2k. I then took a second hard drive and tried to install Corel Linux on it. This is evidently a "dumbed-down" version of Debian. Unfortunately, it was too old to recognize the Voodoo3 and so Corel is sending me their latest kernel.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>"BootEasy" automatically "discovered" the second hard drive and would boot Linux, if the Linux OS would have worked. It does an excellent job with a dual-boot between W2k and FreeBSD.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>Thanks again for all the helpful comments I received.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>Now the fun begins... :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>One last parting question: My employer likes certifications. Does FreeBSD have any, or is that a silly question?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>Thanks again,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=756024316-17012001><FONT face=Arial>Randy</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>Randy Keyes</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Network Services, JNL</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>randall.keyes@jnli.com</FONT></P> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C080A6.24E1773A-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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