From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 22:36:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r10.mx.aol.com (imo-r10.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CA237B400 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from Roger534@aol.com by imo-r10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.5.) id n.140.bce0850 (3703) for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:36:25 -0500 (EST) From: Roger534@aol.com Message-ID: <140.bce0850.29d2c269@aol.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:36:25 EST Subject: I guess it's not going to work To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_140.bce0850.29d2c269_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows XP US sub 50 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --part1_140.bce0850.29d2c269_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to thank everyone who encouraged me to install FreeBSD on my old PC, but it turns out that that machine has the "broken" CMD PCI-0460 disk controller, and also appears to have what linux users call a "Winmodem" which is incompatible with anything but Microsoft Windows. So I guess I'll hang on to the FreeBSD manual and a couple of programming books I bought (bash and gawk) until I can afford a new machine. I have seen the future, and it is called Open Source . --part1_140.bce0850.29d2c269_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to thank everyone who encouraged me to install FreeBSD on my old PC, but
it turns out that that machine has the "broken" CMD PCI-0460 disk controller, and
also appears to have what linux users call a "Winmodem" which is incompatible with anything but Microsoft Windows. So I guess I'll hang on to the FreeBSD manual and a couple of programming books I bought (bash and gawk) until I can afford a new machine. I have seen the future, and it is called Open Source . --part1_140.bce0850.29d2c269_boundary-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message