From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 09:04:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00902 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from world (sdt.com [199.100.49.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00897 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhoward@sabre.com) Received: by world (SMI-8.6) id LAA20158; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:02:04 -0600 Received: from aadt(144.9.149.25) by world via smap (V2.0) id xma020156; Thu, 22 Jan 98 17:02:00 GMT Received: from SLA2504A (dhcp110-62) by aadt (4.1/SUN-2.0hub) id AA00713; Thu, 22 Jan 98 10:58:08 CST Message-Id: <34C77AE7.5AFD@sabre.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:59:19 -0600 From: Russ Howard Organization: Sabre Technology Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E (OS/2; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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