From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 21:12:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1A414DF4 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:11:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA00925; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:20:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903020520.AAA00925@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Newbie Questions In-Reply-To: from Deepu Sebastian Joseph at "Mar 1, 99 09:47:19 pm" To: dsj@engunx.unl.edu (Deepu Sebastian Joseph) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:20:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Deepu Sebastian Joseph wrote, > Hi: > I have FreeBSD running on 486/33 with Intel Overdrive to 66 MHz. when I > type uname -a it gives me the kind of processor as i386. Is this a prob. No, it is a i386-based CPU. Check the top of the 'dmesg' output at the "CPU:" line. It should get the '486' there. > I > installed thru floppies by copying only the bin distribution from the ftp > site. Also where can I get the Java Development kit for BSD. Sorry, I dunno that one. It has come up before. Perhaps search the mail archive. > How do I > install other distributions like man/. If you are a beginner, the best thing to do is probably to go back into the sysinstall (/stand/sysinstall) and choose 'Upgrade.' > Is there a way I can increase swap > space without re installing. Yes. Add a new device with swap, repartition for more swap, or swap to a regular file. > IF I add one more hard disk would I have to > re-install. No. > Also if I get the modem going, can I hvae TCP/IP services like > telnet server, ftp server, http server running on my machine thru PPP They already are enabled by default. See '/etc/inetd.conf' to see what is ready to go. Setting up the PPP will likely be the tough step there. However, there are quite a few tutorials on the topic. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message