From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 23:12:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA19777 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from bridget.devlab.org (root@[194.185.12.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA19763 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (matra@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridget.devlab.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA00198; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 05:18:42 GMT Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 05:18:41 +0000 (GMT) From: matra X-Sender: matra@bridget.devlab.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Newbie... In-Reply-To: <199701211020.LAA00207@mail.umu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HI! Im a newbie of FreeBSD. I had Linux for a year and now i want to install FreeBSD on my computer. Actually i have the "The Complete FreeBSD" book ( very well as a starting point) and a 2.1.5 version of FreeBSD up and running. Love! me : "go away from my hard disk...!" linux : " ok..ok ... dont beat me..." So , i have some question to peoples on this ml. 1 -- Kernel upgrade : Under linux a simple "patch -p0 < patch-xx.xx.xx" is sufficient to upgrade the kernel . Wat is the story about upgrading kernels under FreeBSD ? Can i ftp the newest 2.1.6 or 2.2.0 , put it in /sys/src and make a compile ? In other words : wat is the quickest way to upgrade my system to a newer version of FreeBSD? 2 -- SvgaLIB: Under Linux i have Svgalib .Wat is the svgalib for FreeBSD? 3 -- ZIP Drive: I have a parallel port ZIP drive . How can i use this very useful gadget with FreeBSD? Thanx for your time ... cul8r_ ____ _____ _____ ____..______/|__________/|__________/|______ | || |(_ _)| _ || | ..______/|__________/|__________/|____ | || o | | | | [ ] || o | ..______/|__________/|__________/|__ |_>_>_||__|_| |_| |__|\_\|__|_| ..______/|__________/|__________/| e-mail :matra@diemme.it ,irc (efnet-euro) ,voice :+39-984-780347 (ITALY) ------------------------------------------------------------------------