Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:32:41 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: "Yuki(Technet)" <yuki@technet.ne.jp>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011127182442.00c4c940@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c17798$d47d4b80$8fc6fea9@n150>
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At 08:11 2001/11/28 +0900, Yuki(Technet) wrote: >This is absolutely my first time to try to install FreeBSD. There must be a >lot of things to know in prior to it; however, first of all, I would like to >confirm the following stuff: > >1. Hard Disk Space needed -- if, especially, install entire components > >2. compatible Hardware Components if some cannot work, such as NIC or >whatever > >3. required memory and CPU > >ETC. > >Well, before installing it, I need to know the environment regarding >Hardware. In addition, Japanese version must have more restriction than >English version itself, which you might not aware of, though. In such a >case, just let me know about English version. Some of this is easily available, (nihongo de mo) at the site. I haven't tried a Japanese version--in general (judging from experience with Linux) adding Japanese support increases the amount of disk space by a bit more than you might expect, probably because of the fonts. (Although I've never made a scientific study of this, in MS, for example, I see that a roman letter font is about 300k vs. 8.7 Megs for a Japanese font.) Judging from Linux, which might or might not be applicable, a Japanese install takes up more room, but otherwise seems to be about the same, as far as hardware recognition, etc. I'm in NYC, so, when I get a Japanese version of something, it's from a NYC bookstore--therefore, although it might be a little less current than the English equivalent, that's probably because its a CD included in a magazine that is a few months old). It might help if you gave your hardware specification, then people who had experience with that hardware can say, yes, this works, no, this didn't work, or maybe, but I had trouble getting it to work. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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