From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 01:16:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1425816A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 01:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web54003.mail.yahoo.com (web54003.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CA8743D6E for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 01:16:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 26514 invoked by uid 60001); 5 May 2005 01:15:54 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=2GYR0acrf5Pj0+8YwTSet8o+50DXo2dx0IuyzaNuX6VqP4o3tV/PbZkfwDdr/5gDvcr5mQD/AHIExbBbWPbEedpQs5nmJfAZtakICmvjOc2Ep2A0OvtSwJwrjwM0kOng8ZlIw/RtqXzPPFpMtNNHWQr7VuyZBmPSv9vHz7TYizg= ; Message-ID: <20050505011554.26512.qmail@web54003.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [147.46.44.181] by web54003.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:15:53 PDT Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 18:15:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob To: SebastianR@gmx.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Horror X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 01:16:46 -0000 Sebastian Reichelt wrote: > > As a programmer and computer science student, I > wanted to try out FreeBSD on my old computer > (Pentium 166). Mainly I just want to get to know > the differences between FreeBSD and Linux, and see > whether it really has a better design (which many > people I know claim). Sebastian, About 5 years ago, I made the transition form Linux to FreeBSD. That also gave me some headaches, and the first few times nothing seemed to work. Slowly I learnt that FreeBSD (Installation & OS) does things quite different. Ever since I got the hang of how these things worked, I never used anything else than FreeBSD. Anyway, I hope this helps you a bit deal with your current frustration. I also run FreeBSD 5.3 on an old Pentium-1: Pentium/P54C (149.69-MHz 586-class CPU) real memory = 33554432 (32 MB) Note: you need at least 24 MB during installation. On a running system, you can do with less. Boot from the floppies. Then: 1) FDISK Partition editor I recommend to ignore any geometry issues here. Delete all existing slices, and say 'A', to use the entire disk. If I remember well, the geometry issues are irrelevant when you dedicate the entire disk to FreeBSD. 2) Install Boot Manager I always choose "BootMgr" here. 3) FreeBSD Disklabel Editor Initially you should have no entries here (if you have, remove them); then choose 'A' autodefaults. These autodefaults will be fine for a first time installation rehearsal :). Leave the finetuning for subsequent installations, when you are more familiar with it. 4) Choose Distributions Choose here "The smallest configuration possible". This will give you a running FreeBSD system in a minimal amount of installation time. 5) Media Since you have CDs, choose here "Install from a FreeBSD CD/DVD". --------- Does this help you overcome the issues you encountered earlier? Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com