From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 26 01:58:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA12306 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 01:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from en.com (root@en.com [204.89.181.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA12300 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 01:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smitho (p19-ts12.en.net [207.78.12.147]) by en.com (8.8.5/8.7.4) with SMTP id EAA17105; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 04:56:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33B21D00.6F83@en.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 03:40:48 -0400 From: smitho X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: bobv@en.com Subject: FreeBSD and me Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk good evening ...err morning I need to obtain FreeBSD to run a internet server. we havent bought the server yet and I wanted to download the OS to get a look at it ahead of time we are hopeing to use..... 16x Mitsumi cd-rom pentium 150 tyan 1572 430tx atx model quantum 2.1 SE with ultra DMA 33 IDE (2) 64 MB sd-ram dimm moduals colorado T3000 back up el-chepo video card (we wont be running a GUI) and a 3 com 3c905 10 base t ethernet card I have had a hard time trying to find specific information on hardware compatability or any info reguarding reccommended install method (cd-rom,tape,disk,etc.) I have contacted many of the above mentioned vendors and they say they do not support FBSD are there drivers in the OS that will work with these pieces?? there is alot of vague references but nothing specific I was wondering if I may trouble you to give me any hardware recommendations and/or any type of neet stuff you can tell me would be great and highly appreciated I think we want to use ver. 2.2.2 that seems to be the most recent stable version from all the reading I have done.. help any way you can thank you thank you thank you Eric Smith Smitho@en.com