From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 11:40:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28592 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p11.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28578 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA00583; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 06:40:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 06:40:23 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: Donald Johnson <1typist@email.msn.com> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quistions In-Reply-To: <000101be2dc5$53916f80$90b4fad0@bell> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Donald Johnson wrote: > Hello > My name is Don Johnson > I stumbled across freeBSD while cruzing the net > Im not shure exactly what it is. Is it an operating system that > workes with DOS and Windowa or is it an operating system of its own? > It's a separate operating system. > Can you recomend a book i can get on the subject? > 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey. It comes with a 4cd set with the OS on them. Around $70 (US) for the book along with the cds. You can find out more about it and order it online from Walnut Creek CDROM at http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm > can this be run on the same computer with windows? > Sure. FreeBSD comes with a boot manager so you can run a multiple-OS system. However, you can't run them both at the same time. You'll need to reboot to switch back and forth between the two. Take a look at the the handbook for more info.. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message