Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:57:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: mikemand@gmail.com (Micheal Mand) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Platform question Message-ID: <200412131357.iBDDvp505355@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000801c4e0d5$5125bca0$0302a8c0@WorkGroup> from "Micheal Mand" at Dec 12, 2004 10:33:41 PM
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> > Hello, > > I am very interested in using FreeBSD on my old Compaq box, but the only > problem is, I can't seem to find where Windows holds the system information. > (Stupid Windows) Does anyone have any ideas or know which port I should use? Huh??? I can't think of anything you could learn from Windows that would tell you which "port" you would use. Do you mean which hardware platform version of FreeBSD? Well, if the box was running MS windows, you want FreeBSD for the i386 platform. Also, I don't think anything Compaq has put out in the last 10 years would be anything but i386. Maybe you need to get on the FreeBSD web site: http://www.freebsd.org/ and do a bunch of reading - follow various links on that page - before getting started. Also, you might want to go throught the FAQs and even some online publications such as articles from onlamp.com. This will help you understand the bigger picture. ////jerry > > Thanks in advance for any help, > Mike > _______________________________________________
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