Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:09:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Zachary McGibbon <mzac@axess.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960306100124.4144A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <313D3377.114D@axess.com>
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Zachary McGibbon wrote: > Hello there.. first off, I'd like to ask the following... would it be > practical to use FreeBSD on my home pc? what can I use it for? Well, what do _you_ use Unix for? :-) I can see these things: - Learning Unix (from user commands to sysadmin) - Using an non-MS operating system - Learn Xwindows - Read source listings and learn how (not?) to program > Currently, I am using ms-dos ver. 6.2 with win 3.1... I read thru some > of your docs on how to install the program and such, but it confuses me! Let's take a look... > I know a bit about unix, so, some of it was familiar, but not all... the > only thing I could figure out how to do was to download two exe files.. > one for a setup disk, and one to partition my hd? that's another problem. What did you pull? I don't think you got what you needed. > I have two hard disks.. my first (drive c) is 131 megs, with 80 megs > free, and my second is a 730 meg, that has to have a driver loaded into > mem for it to work. what I would LIKE to possibly be able to do is to > put BSD on my d drive.. how could I do that? last time I did something > like that (installing mini linux on my d drive) the drive crashed and I > had to format? could you help me out? thanks.. Sounds like a sector translator...do you load it from DOS or does it come up before DOS? you may need to get a version that goes into the mbr and loads automatically on boot. Otherwise, you should be OK. > also, if I install it, > can I have a sort of dual boot feature so I can still use dos and win > 3.1? Certainly may. You'll have to ue OS-BS as the boot manager. > thanks.. could you reply asap? and I can't figure out how download > the program itself! You have options: 1. Download it from ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE. 2. Buy the CDROM from Walnut Creek (http://www.cdrom.com). I think you'd do better with the CD. If you want to ftp install, read INSTALL in the above directory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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