Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:29:57 +0200 From: "Sogn" <sogn@c2i.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Newbie help Message-ID: <01bdfeb3$232b8e20$d325d8c1@default>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDFEC3.E6B45E20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a friend, and I want to install it on = an Olivetti p75 computer (formated hard drive, but DOS (only on = bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for FreeBSD as = well. So me having made up my mind about UNIX being totally cool thing to have = on my machine I put in the boot disk and the CD-rom, wait and suddenly I = am told that I should configure kernel. HELP!!! I understand that I should identify the hardware I have, but don't know = what half of the options mean. (I know that I have Creative CD-rom, and = that's about it) So what do I do, and how? Sogn sogn@c2i.net P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot questions, but I tried to = RTFM; in the one online I couldn't find anything explaining what I = should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I hope that = you'll excuse my ignorance. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDFEC3.E6B45E20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I have gotten a FreeBSD CD-rom for a = friend, and=20 I want to install it on an Olivetti p75 computer (formated hard drive, = but DOS=20 (only on bootdisk) and win95 are avilable). I have a boot disk for = FreeBSD as=20 well.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>So me having made up my mind about = UNIX being=20 totally cool thing to have on my machine I put in the boot disk and the = CD-rom,=20 wait and suddenly I am told that I should configure kernel. = HELP!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I understand that I should identify = the hardware=20 I have, but don't know what half of the options mean. (I know that I = have=20 Creative CD-rom, and that's about it)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>So what do I do, and = how?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Sogn</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2><A = href=3D"mailto:sogn@c2i.net">sogn@c2i.net</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>P. S. I'm sorry to bother you with such idiot = questions, but I=20 tried to RTFM; in the one online I couldn't find anything explaining = what I=20 should do, and the one offered in the program, well...) I hope that = you'll=20 excuse my ignorance.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BDFEC3.E6B45E20-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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