From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 23:52:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx-a.qnet.com (mx-a.qnet.com [209.221.198.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8200037B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cello.qnet.com (stork@cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by mx-a.qnet.com (8.9.1a/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25254; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (stork@localhost) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA09352; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:51:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cello.qnet.com: stork owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:51:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Heredity Choice To: Carl Mooney Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freeBSD In-Reply-To: <000801c02e5a$e8168c20$5de4ff3e@Wildsea> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should find it easy to install most of FreeBSD if you have Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" at your side. Go for a CDROM with 3.x rather than the latest 4.1, because this is what the book covers. Other useful guides are the "Handbook" and articles in www.daemonnews.org. It is not too much to read everything you can find on FreeBSD. Depending on your hardware, X-windows can be a little tricky but is not really necessary for learning the UNIX commands and file system. If you do install X-windows, also install KDE, which is like MS Windows desktop only better. The rival, Gnome, crashes. A Microsoft user expects crashes; a FreeBSD user does not. Unless you have beginner's luck, PPP can be very difficult to configure. For just reading and sending e-mail, CU is easy to learn and use. Once you become familiar with FreeBSD, you will not be happy with anything less. Paul Smith stork@qnet.com On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Carl Mooney wrote: > I'm new to all this computing stuff but need to learn how to use UNIX for a Masters programme I'm doing. My question is can I install freeBSD onto my current PC (running windows 98) and have it as a duel boot so that I can learn Unix at home, without needing to go into university? If so is it relatively easy? > > Your time and help is much appreciated. > > Carl Mooney (England). > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message