From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 10:15:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DA914E18 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990317181640.PASE3226200.mta2-rme@wocker>; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:16:40 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "lÛÇÅS" Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:15:11 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Re: Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990317125046.23286.rocketmail@send104.yahoomail.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990317181640.PASE3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For an example of what I did, see see http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/dual.htm On 17 Mar 99, at 4:50, l=DB=C7=C5S wrote: > 1) How can i create a new partition on my 6gb HDD and preserve all > data i had before. see the URL. I used fips.exe. > 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? Installing from a DOS partition is fine. > 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. The bin directory was about 23M > 4) What files do I need? See the URL. > 5) Can I convert applications from Windows/DOS to FreeBSD if I dont > have the source code? I dunno. I doubt it. > 6) Does FreeBSD have an ISP dialer included like Windows 95/98/NT does? Yes. Try PPP. See http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/ppp.htm but it's not 100% finished yet. Other references include www.freebsd.org and http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html. > 7) What would the recommended size for a partition for FreeBSD be? Mine was 220M I think. > 8) Are there any programming languages for FreeBSD that I can download > as I am very interested in developing FreeBSD applications FreeBSD comes with a C compiler. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message