Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:59:19 -0600 From: Russ Howard <rhoward@sabre.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions Message-ID: <34C77AE7.5AFD@sabre.com>
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Gentlemen,
I am thinking of putting either Linux, Free BSD, or some form of Unix on
my system at home to coexist with my Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, and
OS/2 Warp 4 partitions. Linux appears to be out, because it doesn't
support plug 'n pray (at least that's what I read at the Red Hat
homepage). Does Free BSD support plug 'n play (I couldn't find it in the
online docs)? Also, here is my system :
Intel Pentium 90mhz
72MB non-parity 70ns RAM
1.6 GB EIDE Western Digital Hard Drive
5.2 GB EIDE Maxtor Hard Drive
Blaster 6X CD-ROM (off of its own PNP EIDE card)
Creative Labs Vibra 16 Sound Card
Parallel Port Zip Drive
Microsoft Inport Bus Mouse (off of its own PNP card)
HP Deskjet 560C (off of the Zip Drive)
Cirrus Logic 5434 SVGA video w/ 1MB RAM
AST BIOS 2.02
17in. Magnavox .28 Monitor
The system has LBA BIOS for my hard drives. Here is how my drives are
laid out :
Disk 1 - 5.1 GB Maxtor EIDE (Master)
Boot Manager 7.8MB Primary
C: 313MB FAT Primary Windows 95
353MB NTFS Logical Windows NT 4.0
E: 251MB FAT Logical Data
300MB HPFS Logical OS/2 Data
F: 1GB FAT Logical Data
G: 1GB FAT Logical Data
H: 1GB FAT Logical Data
I: 1GB FAT Logical Data
400MB HPFS Logical OS/2 Warp 4
Disk 2 - 1.6GB Western Digital EIDE (Slave)
D: 549MB FAT Primary Linux or Free BSD
1GB HPFS Logical OS/2 Data
Will this drive setup work with BSD?
Will Free BSD cooperate with my system? Also, when was the last official
version of Free BSD cut and when will the next one be (I want to get the
most current official release)? What is the version number of the most
current official release? Thanks for your help with this.
Russ
P.S. You can send the answers either to rhoward@sabre.com (work) or
falcon@dhc.net (home).
--
Russ Howard
Sr. Consultant
Sabre Technology Solutions
4-3696
rhoward@sabre.com
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