From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 14:14:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f282.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.148.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD7337B43E for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:14:43 -0700 Received: from 207.218.88.203 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [207.218.88.203] From: "Shane Hagan" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: I did it! Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:14:43 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Aug 2000 21:14:43.0825 (UTC) FILETIME=[A7A74610:01C00FA2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I finally got bsd to load. I decided to buy the 4.0 power pack and install it on a box that has a Cyrix 133, 300mb of ram, Lynksys NIC, and Seagate 2 gig hard drive. I also installed X windows I wanted to see what it looked like in comparison to windows. Right now I only have the default X window up right now. I am going to dig into the ports and find something more suitable for my tastes. Anyways enough of the small talk lets get down to what I am writing for. I am looking for books or any other papers on unix commands and any other tips for free BSD. I am planning on get a new box and installing free bsd on it. Can I network my Windows machines through free BSD? One more question before I go is am I better of running X windows or just running from a shell or prompt (I am not sure of the terminology)? When I installed I used the auto configuration for the formatting of the hard drives. In which situations do I need to do this manually? Thank you for time and patience, Shane P. Hagan ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message