Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:17:10 -0700 (PDT) From: lyle jorgensen <lylejorgensen@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: have i got it right Message-ID: <20000816151710.2223.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I am enrolled at UMSL (University of Missouri, St Louis) in a basic programmers class. We will be using the C language on a UNIX server. I am a little farmiliar with "C" but know nothing about UNIX. I desire to load freebsd on my computer to learn "everything you always wanted to know about UNIX but were to dumb to ask" in one week. Tell me if I understand this thing correctly, please. I have downloaded and I believe understand how to build the 2 floppies. I have downloaded the "BIN" files to my c drive. I am running win98 on a DFI AT motherboard with a AMDK6 450 processor, with two IDE hard drives and 32M memory. I plan to make my secondary hard drive, a 450M IDE, my freebsd drive. Here is my plan of attack: First make the two floppies. Turn off my machine and reconfigure so that the 450 drive is master and my normal drive slave. boot with the first floppie in the A drive. steer the program to my normal drive where the BIN files are downloaded. Will this work? Can freebsd read DOS drives? Is there a whole bunch of stuff I still don't properly understand? How can I be sure that I won't wipe out my normal C drive? Thanks in advance. lyle --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. [-- Attachment #2 --] <P>I am enrolled at UMSL (University of Missouri, St Louis) in a basic programmers class. We will be using the C language on a UNIX server. I am a little farmiliar with "C" but know nothing about UNIX. I desire to load freebsd on my computer to learn "everything you always wanted to know about UNIX but were to dumb to ask" in one week.</P> <P>Tell me if I understand this thing correctly, please.</P> <P>I have downloaded and I believe understand how to build the 2 floppies. I have downloaded the "BIN" files to my c drive. I am running win98 on a DFI AT motherboard with a AMDK6 450 processor, with two IDE hard drives and 32M memory. I plan to make my secondary hard drive, a 450M IDE, my freebsd drive.</P> <P>Here is my plan of attack:</P> <P>First make the two floppies. Turn off my machine and reconfigure so that the 450 drive is master and my normal drive slave. boot with the first floppie in the A drive. steer the program to my normal drive where the BIN files are downloaded.</P> <P>Will this work? Can freebsd read DOS drives? Is there a whole bunch of stuff I still don't properly understand? How can I be sure that I won't wipe out my normal C drive?</P> <P>Thanks in advance. </P> <P>lyle</P><p><br><hr size=1><b>Do You Yahoo!?</b><br> Send instant messages & get email alerts with <a href="http://im.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Messenger</a>.help
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