From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 18:22:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25829 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25822 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA02513; Sun, 10 May 1998 10:52:18 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980510105218.B12200@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 10:52:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Webmaster@Web-Choice.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I take the risk? ot use my 386? References: <3554FA4B.3E0B@Web-Choice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3554FA4B.3E0B@Web-Choice.com>; from Mike J Schoonbrood on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 01:52:27AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 1:52:27 +0100, Mike J Schoonbrood wrote: > Hi, > > I am running MS Windows 98 BETA 3, but want to setup a Web Server for > FTP, E-mail, HTTP, Gopher etc. I was reccomended Red Hat Linux 5, so I > got a GNU Version for $5, when I installed it, it really messed up my > hard drive partitions!! In fact, 1 gig of my data is still in NON-DOS > Format, and it won't change back! To be fair, this doesn't sound like Red Hat's fault. Any time you install more than one operating system on a disk, you must divide up the space on the disk between the systems. It certainly won't "change back" unless you issue the instructions to do so. > Here's the major thing.....I want to see what a UNIX System is like, but > after what happened with Linux, I am afraid of the results, here's what > I though I might do....find a way to install it to my old 386 Computer, > it doesn't have a modem, only s floppy drive and 175 Meg Hard > Drive....how do I install it? Can I get FreeBSD from the net and onto > Floppy? Yes, you can do that. Bear in mind, though, that there's a lot of stuff included in the distribution. You'd almost certainly be better off installing from CD-ROM. You could use the currently unallocated 1 GB of disk on your other machine for that. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message