From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jul 26 23:14:22 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA13107
          for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 23:14:22 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA13102
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 23:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca
Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA08078; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
Received: (from ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA21034; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:15:52 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:15:52 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199607270615.CAA21034@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
X-Mailer: slnr v.2.13 as ported to FreeBSD
To: michaelr3@juno.com
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

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!