[H-GEN] dual booting

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From: "Sandra Milne" <silne at optusnet.com.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] dual booting


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> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 10:19, 3 Blokes wrote:
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> > future, so all this information I am reading is helping, thankyou
Sandra,
>
> You're welcome. :-) Always glad to help. I haven't actually rebooted
> into Windohs yet since I reinstalled linux. I think it's the chicken in
> me :-/
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> >
> > NOTE: Pls dont flame me, beat me, ect. for anything in this message that
is
> > wrong, I am a Unix Newbie and am just going on the limited knowledge I
have,
> > Please be nice!
>
> Well you haven't offended me yet ;-)
Thankyou for your patience and understanding, much appreciated :)

>As for BSD, I have tried both
> FreeBSD and OpenBSD. One I found difficult to setup, the other didn't
> like lilo already being on the computer and refused to boot. The one
> that was difficult to setup wouldn't recognise my network card. At least
> I think that's what it was, because I really didn't understand how to
> choose device modules. I got it going eventually, but didn't understand
> how the package manager worked nor could I find any documentation on how
> to use it. I decided to stick with debian as apt is easier for me to
> understand and use.

Thanks for the insight, I have downloaded FreeBSD(Thanks Tel$tra Gamearena)
and I am hoping to be able to test it sometime this week, im using an Athlon
1 Gig box with [1]Standard hardware, so I am hoping(and praying) that
hardware detection/installation shouldnt be a problem.  The box is for my
Computer Lounge, I use it for sharing the net(and a normal box sometimes
when the internet is not needed, thus the win2k/98 boot aswell) so i'l have
to do the old HDD swap to make sure iv got something to fall back on if
needed. Just for curiousity's sake I will give you an update and tell you
how I went.

If anyone has any comments to add as to what OS they would recommend I will
be open to them all!


>
> (Notice the self-referants used. What is easy/difficult for me might not
> be for somebody else.)
>
> Sandra.
> silne at optusnet.com.au
> no linux .signature yet

Thankyou Sandra for all your assistance!

[1]I understand there is no 'Standard' hardware, but in my experience this
hardware can be considered 'Standard'.

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