Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:14:29 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: lyle jorgensen <lylejorgensen@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: have i got it right Message-ID: <399AF625.5A29C89A@mitre.org> References: <20000816151710.2223.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com>
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lyle jorgensen wrote: > > 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? Check out the handbook on http://www.freebsd.org, it will answer a lot of the questions you have and are going to have. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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