From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 4:31:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4655E14E2C for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 04:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 2994 invoked from network); 31 Dec 1999 12:31:09 -0000 Received: from useras17.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.137.21) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 1999 12:31:09 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01981; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:31:00 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:31:00 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Gordon Govenlock Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD; newbie Message-ID: <19991231123100.B327@marder-1> References: <001001bf5367$831399e0$03efb8a1@telusplanet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <001001bf5367$831399e0$03efb8a1@telusplanet.net> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 12:28:27AM -0700, Gordon Govenlock wrote: > I am a PC technician - however, that has unfortunately caused my > computer to be running Win'98. That's worthy of a place in the fortune(6) database :) > I have an ADSL account, and would like to setup a firewall in a 486. > I have no Unix/Linux experience, but look forward? to the > challange... I am currently downloading the entire > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD directory. Is this a bad thing? I > have no idea where to start... any suggestions? Go to http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ follow the link in the section "Easy to install" HTH. Happy New Year. -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message