From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 4 13:31:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21890 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21877 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA05157; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:27:18 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:27:17 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: wils743@banet.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: purpose In-Reply-To: <3616D256.595B@banet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 wils743@banet.net wrote: > I recently purchased FreeBSD 2.2.7 with the intention of demonstrating > the use of unix commands since I don't have a unix machine available. > Will this be feasable ? Also I would like to find out if there is a > Fortran compiler that I can use with the FreeBSD operating system. There's the GNU Fortran compiler. > I am going to install the operating system on a seperate hard disk > devoted only to FreeBSD. I will be installing from CDROM. Am I likely to > encounter any problems ? Make a boot floppy from the CDROM, and try it out. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Live your own life, for you will die your own death To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message