From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 15:14:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA29035 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29024 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA05272; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:11:56 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:11:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Patrick G. LeBlanc" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing with CR-563 Pan. on Sb16 interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Patrick G. LeBlanc wrote: > Thanks for the advise! But I'm a complete newbie to FreeBSD. I am > trying to set it up as my main development computer, rather than the > option of a win95 system. I like the FreeBSD option MUCH better :-) I've been doing the same, but I have a OS/2 system I can backend off of. I think FreeBSD is a FAR superior development > environment. I also just want to learn about the nuts and bolts of Unix > from a sys admin perspective. I'm not a heavy duty programmer, just a > dabbler really. FreeBSD isn't too bad a way to get into sysadmining, there is a good support net (you're on it in questions) plus a lot of the configuration is either classical Unix or is pretty common-sense. > I'de really like to get the cdrom up and running so I can start using > the system properly. Unfortunately I don't know much about cd-rom support under fbsd. I have a teac 4x that isn't supported so I haven't played with it much. After I get some more cash I'm going to upgrade it to SCSI and do it the way I should have when I bought the machine 6 months ago. > Thanks for your help, I hope I haven't stumped you. No, it's been a pleasure. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major