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i know by posting this people are going to get mad at me but, when i try to download unix for my Windows XP i find a whole bunch of files that i dont know what to do with, so please help, sorry if this has already been posted... or is a stupid question :o

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What do you mean by "unix for Windows XP", do you mean "Microsoft Services For UNIX"?

Tell us what you are trying to download and from where and what you are expecting to get.

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i just want to get unix, im just informing that i have an XP

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  1. What are you going to use it for?

  2. What machine are you going to put it on?

  3. What implementation, Solaris, Linux, Net/Free/OpenBSD?

  4. What distribution are you going to use?

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  1. I want to get into my computer better so I can patch it up.
  2. Windows XP Home Edition
  3. OpenBSD
  4. What?
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"Windows XP Home Edition" is an operating system, not a machine.

Are you intending a dual-boot solution?

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I think you are misunderstanding something fundamental. . . .

Unix is not a program you download and install. It is a whole new OS. So you can't download "Unix for Windows XP" like you said. If you install Unix you won't have Windows XP any more.

You can do a dual boot solution where you can boot your computer to XP or Unix, but not both at the same time.

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Yes, I just couldn't put it in understandable words.

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  1. Make sure you have backed up all valuable data.

  2. Make sure you have enough disk space free for a new partition for OpenBSD.

  3. Create a bootable CD-ROM from "cd41.iso".

  4. Following the installation instructions in 4 - OpenBSD 4.1 Installation Guide

Basically you allocate a partition to OpenBSD
Set up a disklabel
Install the filesets
Configure the system

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Thanks for the help. :slight_smile: