Olivier DAVY FreeBSD Fan ;)
Hi,
I am very fond of FreeBSD since I tried it on a single little hard drive (*1).
However, I cannot delete my Linux for FreeBSD on my dual boot Pc (Win...ws + Linux) since I do not know the following things, t hat are essential for me to well manage my PC :
1. when installing FreeBSD on a partition on the same disk as Windows, what kind of boot manager should I use.
During the install, the boot manager choosing screen suggest to install nothing. But how to boot on BSD ?
So I tried to install BSD with Linux and Windows, and use Lilo to boot BSD. Well, it works, but I am not satisfied, since Linux is still necessary to boot. What option should I choose ? How should I partition my disk to have this dual boot.
What kind of bootmanager should I use ? Does Windows XP (or 2000) could boot FreeBSD (hum ?) ?
2. On my standalone disk (cf. (*1)), I use the default bootloader of FreeBSD.
But I can not delete if from my HD, whereas I can delete lilo by executing fdisk /MBR ? So what is the issue ? Is the BSD boot loader not in the Master Boot Record ? How can i delete it, to delete all FreeBSD from my disk (just in case...) ?
3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ?
4. Is Java now well supported (I tried once to install it, but it did not work since I did not found the right version of the JDK to port). I 'd like to install a true J2EE plateform on BSD !
Thank you for your attention,
I am waiting for your reply,
Olivier
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