From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 10 14:21:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22681 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme45.sunshine.net [204.191.205.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22673 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00414; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: Paul Missman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Freebsd - It works, thanks. In-Reply-To: <9705101859.AA32575@milo.cfw.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 May 1997, Paul Missman wrote: > > ---- >From: Paul Missman >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 :-) _______________________________________ |\ /| If I hadn't asked | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | the questions I asked, | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | I wouldn't be answering | /^\_________________________/^\ | the questions I'm answering. | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~