From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 20:26:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4776014E0A for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA14708; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:27:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906070327.XAA14708@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: FreeBsd installation question In-Reply-To: <19990607025651.3466.rocketmail@web121.yahoomail.com> from Jawad at "Jun 6, 99 07:56:51 pm" To: rehzon@yahoo.com (Jawad) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:27:11 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jawad wrote, > Hi: > > I'm trying to install freebsd on my desktop system > which already has win98. The only thing that stopped > me installing it yet is whether all my peripheral > devices would be supported by it or not. Here are the > specs of my system: > > CPU: PENTIUM II > RAM: 256 MB 100 MHZ SDRAM > CDROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-M1202 > VIDEO CARD: 16 MB STB nVidia TNT 3D AGP Graphics Card Check http://www.xfree86.org. FreeBSD itself does not care about graphics cards. But if you want to run X... Check the X server does. > HARDDISK: MAXTOR 17.2 GB ULTRA ATA > ( I have allocated 9 GB for win98 and rest is free ) > MODEM: 3COM US Robotics V.90 PCI Telephony WinModem ^^^^^^^^ Dan already pointed out the evils of WinModems. It won't work for Linux either. Heck, does NT handle them? > SOUND CARD: TURTLE BEACH MONTEGO II A3D 320 V Last I knew, this card was not supported. IIRC, there is only one PCI driver of any type in an experimental stage. This may have changed. > ZIP DRIVE: IOMEGA ZIP 100 MB INTERNAL > AND A EXTERNAL SCSI PHILIPS OMNI WRITER CD-RW DRIVE -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message