Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:10:28PM +1100, David Morton wrote: > I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and > scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about > messing with my PC. > > However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I have always wanted to play with BSD. My

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Ivan Voras
David Morton wrote: > Anyway, I have a laptop preinstalled with Vista Home Premium and I would > like to also run BSD on it. In reading your installation documentation, I > do not see anything that suggests I can install FreeBSD onto my PC without > wiping Windows. There are several ways to do i

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I have always wanted

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:10:28PM +1100, David Morton wrote: > I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and > scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about > messing with my PC. > > However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the D