From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 08:24:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBE616A408 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:24:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sneezycrazyturtle@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C619813C442 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:24:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sneezycrazyturtle@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so122398nzh for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:24:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=VwCgdgMO2w6OfFnzZURCW5Hd4dAcDRRmxz98Bsy9cnz/uXe34vEgV1xMvZQnOcyvgQ3w0uVbN/uWRH6PyRLXV2cLh5mk5kfWL2W+rrDQke6QgfzbORkKnwCIEN/socyjv584oNxqfu+MP+eoo9FKMvql44G1sV38M9zmqcrwvrA= Received: by 10.65.210.18 with SMTP id m18mr96760qbq.1171439871997; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.148.13 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:57:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <75cd2a440702132357t3378daa9r249c73af4ff7351d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:57:51 +0300 From: "Ata ur Rehman Alvi" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: NEED HELP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:24:36 -0000 HELLO I NEED YOUR HELP REGARDING INSTALLING FREE BSD ON MY NEWLY BOUGHT PC. MY PC SPECS ARE P4 D 3.4GHZ, 1024MB DDR2 667 RAM, GIGABYTE MOTHER BOARD 945PL-S3, NX7300GT-TD256EH VIDEO CARD, SATA 250GB, 7200 RPM ( I DONT KNOW ITS SATA OR SATA II, CAUZ I DONT KNOW HOW TO CHECK, CAN U PLZ TELL ME.). I WANT TO INSTALL "6.2-RELEASE-i386-". ON MY PC. I AM TRYING TO READ AND UNDERSTAND INSTALLATION NOTES. I HAVE DOWNLOADED FOLLOWING ITEMS FROM THIS LINK " ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ " Jan 12 2007 14:51 25444352 6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso Jan 12 2007 14:53 601229312 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso Jan 12 2007 14:55 670107648 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso Jan 12 2007 14:56 197031936 6.2-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso Jan 12 2007 14:57 274 CHECKSUM.MD5 Jan 12 2007 14:58 414 CHECKSUM.SHA256 I AM TOTALLY NEWBIE IN UNIX PLATEFORM. PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY PC SPECS CAN I INSTALL FREE BSD 6.2 AND RUN IT PROPERLY AND LEARN IT COMPLETELY. I WOULD HIGHLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP. REGARS ATA -- SNEEZYCRAZYTURTLE