From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 20:34:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po2.wam.umd.edu (po2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2D714E0A for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02970; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA19656; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA19652; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:34:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:34:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: Jawad , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBsd installation question In-Reply-To: <199906070327.XAA14708@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> 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 > > 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. > Last I heard, Someone was working on the Turtle Beach Montego I driver (Aureal Vortex chip) but I havn't heard anything on it for a couple of weeks. > > 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