From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 16:45:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28414 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 16:45:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28360 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 16:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-224.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.224]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA17921; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:45:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA18870; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:18:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805102318.SAA18870@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Webmaster@Web-Choice.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Should I take the risk? ot use my 386? In-reply-to: Message from Mike J Schoonbrood of "Sun, 10 May 1998 01:52:27 BST." <3554FA4B.3E0B@Web-Choice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:18:36 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike J Schoonbrood writes: > Hi, > > I am running MS Windows 98 BETA 3, but want to setup a Web Server for > FTP, E-mail, HTTP, Gopher etc. I was reccomended Red Hat Linux 5, so I > got a GNU Version for $5, when I installed it, it really messed up my > hard drive partitions!! In fact, 1 gig of my data is still in NON-DOS > Format, and it won't change back! We're talking about two computers here? The messed up one above, and an old one below that's safe to mess up? :-) > Here's the major thing.....I want to see what a UNIX System is like, but > after what happened with Linux, I am afraid of the results, here's what > I though I might do....find a way to install it to my old 386 Computer, > it doesn't have a modem, only s floppy drive and 175 Meg Hard > Drive....how do I install it? Can I get FreeBSD from the net and onto > Floppy? You can dedicate the whole 386 to your FreeBSD experiment? Its pretty easy to use up that 175MB HD. 5M of memory is the minimum for an install. 8M runs fairly nicely as long as you don't run X. Am not sure you could install FreeBSD and X in only 175M. Sounds like from your sig that you might have plenty of bandwidth. So download the FreeBSD 2.2.6 installation floppy. Connect your 386 to your network. Boot with the installation floppy. Answer the questions. And it will install over the net. Even if it has to dial out the modem to your ISP. (or so I'm told). I've never installed quite that way as I only have a 28.8k modem. I either keep a local mirror of the latest -stable, or export the CDROM via NFS. Still boot the installation floppy but I answer some of the questions differently so installation points to my source. The best thing to do is support Walnut Creek and pay $39.95 + $5 S&H for the CD's. If the 386 doesn't have a CDROM then you should be able to put the CD in the other machine and start an ftpd. Create the boot floppy to boot the 386. When you answer the questions, tell it to install via ftp from your other machine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message