On Thursday 07 September 2006 16:04, Arindam wrote: > I am planning to experiment with one of the BSD flavours alongside > Linux on an x86 box and I was wondering which version would be good to > use - FreeBSD 5.2/4, NetBSD ??, OpenBSD ??.
Any would do. In past I have made it work with free and net. But recently I have repeatedly lost the boot sector signature of netbsd and lilo couldn't boot it. I didn't debug it much since I have nuked it since then. > I plan to install the BSD OS on a partition of about 6 GB - should > that be enough - for mainly programming purposes - although I would > like to take a look at the GUI also. You would need a primary partition.. I find the GUI exactly the same as slackware.. ;) KDE is all the same though lot of things such as system monitor does not work on netbsd. > Can I use GRUB to dual boot? Yes Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
