From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 02:52:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D5337B401 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 02:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spf13.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-67.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C2944020 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 02:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c_h_e_s_r_o_n-259@mad.scientist.com) Received: from 205-158-62-68.outblaze.com (205-158-62-68.outblaze.com [205.158.62.68]) by spf13.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 09F52181271C for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:52:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 86107 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2003 09:52:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.51) by 205-158-62-153.outblaze.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2003 09:52:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 8001 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Jul 2003 09:52:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20030704095245.8000.qmail@mail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [62.235.208.220] by ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com with http for c_h_e_s_r_o_n-259@mad.scientist.com; Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:52:45 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?B?UnViZW4gVGhvcuk= ?= To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:52:45 +0100 X-Originating-Ip: 62.235.208.220 X-Originating-Server: ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 04:54:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Does FreeBSD supports my hardware? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 09:52:49 -0000 Hi, I'm interested in all unix-based OS's, so I'm now reading about FreeBSD. I would like to install it, but I would like to know if it will run (optimal) on my system. My PC is a Packard Bell Imedia5800 TNT RW, with a 20 Gb harddrive, which is designed for WinME. My hardrive is split up in two FAT32 partitions: "C:" = about 15 Gb, "D:" = about 4-5 Gb. My Graphical card is a NVidia TNT2 Model64. I have a bit knowledge of Linux, so I know already something about partitioning. But there were a few problems with this SuSE Linux 6.2. First of all, the program Fdisk of SuSE gave me an error while partitioning (I was creating a Linux Swap en Linux Native partition on "D:"). It was something like this: Your disk is setup to ..., there's nothing wrong with that, but it could cause certain setup problems with software that runs while booting, etc. ... It's recommend that you set the disk to 1024 (I think) cilinders. I hope you know what I mean, could this be also a problem while installing FreeBSD. Another problem was my graphical card, which wasn't supported yet, so I couldn't run KDE, etc. The third and last serious problem was, when linux was installed (however, not correct), that after I gave the command "shutdown ...", I couldn't close my PC! Under Windows, if I want to shutdown my computer it does that automatically. Maybe it has something to do with my BIOS settings, can you help me if this could cause problems with FreeBSD? Another thing is my modem. In Windows I've my modem name: MR2800-W Data Fax Modem, and it's produced by AZT or Smartlink. Is that a winmodem or not? I hope you can help me! Regards, Ruben Thoré. my homepage: [1]http://members.lycos.nl/gibbor/ -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at [2]Mail.com [3]CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search References 1. http://members.lycos.nl/gibbor/ 2. http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 3. http://corp.mail.com/careers