From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 00:07:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19255 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.123]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA19227 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01085; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:07:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: bbcat@netonecom.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Track disk manager. In-Reply-To: <199609200412.VAA25324@freefall.freebsd.org> 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 Fri, 20 Sep 1996 bbcat@netonecom.net wrote: > I have a 1.2GB hard disk and cannot install the slackware version that > is available on Internet. If I put my 170MB hard drive as the second > drive I can install Linux on it and then upgrade to be able to see my > first drive which has Dos 6.2 and 3 versions of OS/2. I want to add a > second hard disk and it would then be impossible to have have Linux > because the current installation diskette don't provide any support for > my system. I can't change the controller on my PC which is on the > motherboard and I wouln't even if I could since it works very well with > OS/2 and DOS and the extra expense would be stupid as it would not > improve my PC's performance to justify the said expense. > > My question: Does FreeBSD has the same restriction and what is the > advantage or disadvantage of FreeBSD versus Slackware. Well, not knowing what the offending hardware controller IS, I can't say if we support it or not. FreeBSD vs. Linux will start religious wars. Check the questions archives at http://www.freebsd.org for some good past responses. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major