Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:30:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: djmoronic@yahoo.com (lÛÇÅS) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199903171630.LAA05910@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990317125046.23286.rocketmail@send104.yahoomail.com> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?l=DB=C7=C5S?= at "Mar 17, 99 04:50:46 am"
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lÛÇÅS wrote, Whoa! Some pretty funky characters there, Mr. djmoronic. > Heya, > > i wanna know some stuff about FreeBSD, here are a list of my questions: > > 1) How can i create a new partition on my 6gb HDD and preserve all > data i had before. This really isn't a FreeBSD question, but since it is something that comes up frequently during an install, we'll try to help. But what is your OS and format of the hard drive? > 2) A lot of your documentation makes references to msdos 6. I have > windows 98 and know that there are a lot of hdd access differences, > does it matter if I install from a windows 98 partition to a blank > partition? Oh, OK, that's your system. Win98 uses a FAT format on the hard drive. If you have a factory installed Win98 (i.e. you did not upgrade yourself), it's probably FAT32. Most of the partition resizing tools out there can handle all of the FAT flavors by now. 'Partition Resizer' is one that I have used. First, use the builtin defragmenter in Win98, then use a resizer. Then use fdisk, either the MSDOS version or the FreeBSD version that will pop-up during the the install. As for question (2), wherever you see 'MSDOS' in the installation instructions, it is safe to assume the same goes for 'Win9x' (but no absolute guarantees there). Many M$ critics refer to the Win9x as nothing more than a GUI version of DOS anyway. OTOH, you _cannot_ assume things will go the same way for DOS and WinNT. > 3) How big is the entire FreeBSD installation, as I want to be able to > make an estimate when I am able to finish downloading it. This varies widely with what you want to download which leads to... > 4) What files do I need? At the bare minimum, you'll want to install the bin and manpage distributions. However, as for what you need to download before you get to the installation, I personally believe the easiest thing to do is get the two install floppies and you can go from there. But I have to admit I have only downloaded from machines with NICs in this manner, not over a modem. > 5) Can I convert applications from Windows/DOS to FreeBSD if I dont > have the source code? There are a number of DOS and Winblows emulators for FreeBSD. How well they work is not something I have a lot of personal experience with. From what I have picked up, Windoze apps are very hit-and-miss, while DOS is more consistent, but not trivial to get set up. I am unaware of anything in the reverse direction and would be quite suprised to find any real efforts in that direction. > 6) Does FreeBSD have an ISP dialer included like Windows 95/98/NT does? See the setting up PPP entries in FAQ and Handbook. > 7) What would the recommended size for a partition for FreeBSD be? How much do you need for Win98? How much time will you be in FreeBSD? What do you plan to do? If you have 6 GB, I'd devote at least 1 GB unless you are really pressed for space in Win98. A 2 or 3 GB split would be more equitable, and you would not worry about space problems for a while if you find yourself using FreeBSD a lot. > 8) Are there any programming languages for FreeBSD that I can download > as I am very interested in developing FreeBSD applications A C compiler is part of the basic bin distirbution. GNU C, C++, and Fortran77 are available. Then of course, Perl, Python, etc., etc. Here's a list of the 'language' ports, % ls /usr/ports/lang CVS gnat p5-ePerl ETHOberonV4 guavac pbasic Gofer guile perl5 Makefile hugs pkg README.html icon ptoc STk intercal python Sather itcl rexx-imc TenDRA javac_netscape ruby atlast jdk scheme48 bwbasic kaffe schemetoc cim kawk scm cmucl lcc smalltalk dylan logo sml-nj egcs mit-scheme squeak eiffel mixal sr elisp-manual mocka swi-pl elk modula-3 tcl75 emacs-lisp-intro modula-3-lib tcl76 eperl modula-3-socks tcl80 expect moscow_ml tcl81 forth o2c tclX75 g77 objc tclX80 gcc28 ocaml tclplugin gcl p2c xpl glibstdc++28 p5-Tcl yorick Heck, we got logo, what else could you ask for? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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