From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 06:12:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22821 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 06:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22815 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 06:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA19573; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:12:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id IAA16980; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:12:29 -0500 (CDT) To: Stanley Barker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: learning References: <352CB3C9.20F831BE@vallnet.com> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 09 Apr 1998 08:12:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Stanley Barker's message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 06:40:58 -0500" Message-ID: <87n2dv16mb.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stanley Barker writes: > I was wondering is their a small version of fbsd to > learn on. What it is, I want to learn unix. I'm a dos/win95 > user. And unix is big in the world of computers. Is their any way of > doing this. With out all of the overhead (disk space). Or any other > suggestion. Thanks in advances. Hm... well, really, disk space is so cheap these days... really the easiest thing to do would be to buy a new drive. Partitioning and old drive would probably be more difficult than the whole installation anyway! I'd also suggest getting 2.2.6 release from walnut creek when it is available. http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd26.htm -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message