Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: Paul Missman <missmanp@milo.cfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Freebsd - It works, thanks. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970510135708.317A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <9705101859.AA32575@milo.cfw.com>
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On Sat, 10 May 1997, Paul Missman wrote:
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>From: Paul Missman <missmanp@milo.cfw.com>
>To: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net; data@ds9.abac.com; djls@gate.net
>Date: Saturday, May 10, 1997 2:54 PM
>Subject: Freebsd - It works, thanks.
>
I'm curious, do not all emailers give the option of use Reply To:
I know Eudora does. :-)
>I got freebsd up and running on the same disk, though in a different
>partition, as the one I'm running Win95 on. The problems I had were as
>follows:
>1. I exited the installation process before it copied the binaries.
>2. I hadn't marked the freebsd partition as bootable. Perhaps instructions
>under novice installation need to be added here, with reassurance that this
>won't cause Win95 to become non-bootable.
>3. Other than that, installation was pretty easy (even though I had to
>upload it all at 14.4k).
>Thanks to everyone,
Glad it was so painless, with regards 95, ... };-) I just received
another AOL free `format-able' disk compliments of the other guys whom
protect my MBR. I was thinking of turning it into a FreeBSD install
floppy, rewrapping and returning to sender :-)
>Paul Missman
>P.S. One question - does anyone know when ppp for COM4 might be added?
>Else, I will have to disable my COM1 and move my modem.
>
I think you should be initiated into being referred to the handbook:
lynx /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook_toc.html section 5.3.7
PS Glad to have you aboard :-)
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