From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 14:32:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23113 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16709; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:32:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36ACF0E6.E4A68FD5@seattleu.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:32:06 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie, general intro questions... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John Anthony Kazos Jr." wrote: > > :-) Hi! Hello! > Is this the correct list for this type of question? It said not to send > general "how-to" questions to the technical lists, but I'm not sure whether > or not *this* is one of them. This is the list for any general-purpose question. Somebody will probably tell you where to go if you ask a question that is best served elsewhere. > I am using VirtualPC 2.0 with Windows95 and wish to have FreeBSD 2.2.8. > Partitioning is no problem, but what is the recomended size for a maximum > install with plenty of space left over, but still running Windoze? (2.8GB > avail. for both together). And is it really necessary to partition > separately for each directory, or may I simply have one for swap and one > for /, since I won't be doing any multi-user things with it (desktop only)? I'd give it at least a Gig. FreeBSD puts all of its partitions on a single disk slice (that's partition in the NecroSoft world) so you can have many partitions in a single slice. (I think I got the slice/partition thing right.) > The best way to install for me is from DOS partition, so I would like to > know how to. Specifically: what do I download besides > FreeBSD/releases/<2.2.8-foldername> to get the biggest possible collection > of everything installable from FreeBSD.org? (Mirror site is local to me, I > get 1000K/sec). WOW! I'm jealous of that 1000k, I though 100 was nice... You should get at the very least /bin. The rest of the stuff can be installed after you get install FreeBSD through ftp in /stand/sysinstall. > And does anyone know about any listings/searches/etc. for FreeBSD programs? > Like a links page, something on umich, etc.? Is there a webring? Is there a > FAQ that tells all of this that I missed and am bothering you and making > you mad? ;-) I'm a *good* little newbie, yes I am. First off: Get the ports tree. sysinstall should ask you for it, or you can install the packages (also in sysinstall.) www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org/search (mailing list archives, web site, etc.) www.freebsd.org/handbook OR /usr/share/doc/handbook www.freebsd.org/FAQ OR /usr/share/doc/FAQ www.freebsddiary.com and many others I can't think of off the top of my head. Most Linux binaries will run under FreeBSD, make sure linux emulation is on in rc.conf -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message