Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:56:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Don <deebee@escape.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need Help with FreeBSD! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980827133849.1827A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <199808270910.EAA06084@wpg-01.escape.ca>
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Don wrote: > I am very interested in installing FreeBSD on my computer which is a 486 > DX2 66 PC. And then I want to install the 3D program Blender. > > Can you help me with FreeBSD? I have your site but am not sure > what to download and then what to do. I am running Win 95 (v2). > but like FreebSD and Blender. > > Your help is MUCH appreciated! > > P.S. I am using 8 megs of ram. I try to give a concise outline. Try to read the corresponding chapters of the the handbook and the installation guide `INSTALL.TXT' in the 2.2.7-RELEASE directory. 1. You have to create a free partition on your harddisk. Either you've to install W95 too from scratch or you try to split your W95 partition. Use `fips' from the `tools' directory for a FAT16 partition or buy :-( Partition Magic for a VFAT32 partition to do that. Probably you will want to run the X Window system under FreeBSD; thus the new FreeBSD partition shouldn't be smaller than about 500 MB (to my mind). More disk space can't be wrong, of course. 2. Download `fdimage.exe' and `2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp'. Write the boot floppy image to a formatted floppy disk using `fdimage' and boot the floppy. The installation program will guide you through a lot of necessary steps. I think you should prefer an installation by FTP. Hope that helps a little bit. Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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