From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 23:34:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA28484 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA28477 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA15614; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:39:04 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 23:39:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Henrik Johansson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: harddisks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 May 1996, Henrik Johansson wrote: > I'm a new FreeBSD user. I bought version 2.1 from Walnut Creek. > When choosing Novice Install and selecting packages to install > I get an error message when trying to install emacs and xemacs. > other packages such as uemacs and vi installed OK. The error report > I got said something about that it could be an installation > medium (CD)error or something else, but I don't remember exactly. > Has anyone else reported this? Don't know. Maybe your CD is scratched? Try adding those packages after you get up. > Question 2: > > I'm thinking of buying a new large harddrive such as > Seagate or Maxtor 1GB. Will they work fine with FreeBSD? Shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as the root partition is below 500MB or so. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major