From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 18:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kineo.bowdoin.edu (kineo.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CA237B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcowger@bowdoin.edu) Received: from mcfly ([139.140.133.82]) by kineo.bowdoin.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GEY6JS00.3UA; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:23:52 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" To: "Cynic" , "Melody Akins" , Subject: RE: Another Beginner Squeaks Up Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:25:14 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010615025444.02135168@mail.cz> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>My comments below The ideal scenario (for me, anyway :) would be along these lines: 1) get a spare machine (something like P133 would be perfect), and put it next to your windows box ....... This is EXACTLY What I did. I got on ebay and bought a Pentium 166 w/ 32 MB RAM and a 1GB HD. I set BSD up just enough that I could telnet into it, then just put it in a closet with a netork cable and a power cable plugged in. Now I just telnet or SSH into at my whim. I use it all the time...its incredibly useful. Try your local college, they often have old computer for sale cheap. .matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message