From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 19 10:48:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A0C14EFA for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:48:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacques@panix.com) Received: from panix7.panix.com (root@panix7.nyc.access.net [166.84.0.232]) by mail1.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id NAA12299; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jacques@localhost) by panix7.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id NAA10135; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:46:12 -0400 From: Jacques Williams To: Summoner Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new soldier in the ranks Message-ID: <19990719134612.A9887@panix.com> References: <37928AFD.DBF9EC5A@uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37928AFD.DBF9EC5A@uswest.net>; from Summoner on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 07:18:37PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 07:18:37PM -0700, Summoner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So I go over to a friend's house and he's got all of his > computers running this OS called "FreeBSD". I do my trademark eyebrow > raise and he hands me a set of CDs. 3.1-Release. We spent the > afternoon trying to install it on my Windows 98 box. Got a second HD > to put FreeBSD on and started hacking away. We didn't get too far, X > doesn't like my video card (ATI Rage Fury) and there's no drivers for > my sound card (SBLive). The XFree86 website (http://www.xfree86.org) has a lot of helpful stuff about video cards, and I think you will not have too much trouble getting it working. > > I'm not new to computers by a long shot, but I've never really > touched unix beyond the shell accounts I had with ISPs of way back in > the days before PPP and 14.4kbps modems. I've never tried running my > own unix system, so it will be quite the learning experience I hope. > It will. Enjoy! Jacques Williams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message