Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:15:52 -0400 (EDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: michaelr3@juno.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek Message-ID: <199607270615.CAA21034@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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In Email, michaelr3@juno.com (Michael W Rhea) wrote: > I would some info on this Generic Unix. I > currently run Windows 95 on a Gateway 2000. It is a Pentium 133 with 16 > meg ram. 2.5 Gig Western Digital Hard Drive, Matrox Millennium wram > video card, Wearnes 8x CD-Rom. The latter two devices are of concern, The Matrox Millennium won't be supported by XFree86. You'll have to either purchase a commercial X Server (from XInside, for example. I can't remember their prices) or do without X. It's not, and probably never will be, supported by XFree because Matrox refuses to release specs on how to program drivers for their Millennium card to the public. I don't know about the CD-ROM. You'll have to dig around in some of the documentary files in the /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE (or whatever) directory. I think it might be covered in the INSTALL file (unsure). > e-mail me if they think this will run on my system. I am interested in > purchasing FreeBSD as soon as possible, on Cd-rom from Walnut Creek. Just to make it clear (to prevent misunderstandings, or whatever). You're not really purchasing FreeBSD from Walnut Creek. Rather, you are purchasing a CD-ROM that has FreeBSD on it. FreeBSD is free (hence the name). If it were GNUBSD (whatever that is), we'd probably also take the time to remind you that it's free to use, but not free to produce. ;) -- -- tIM...HOEk Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? NEVER!
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