From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 17 0:25:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90F01554E for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:25:38 -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 AAA21802; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:25:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36EF672F.88A4732A@seattleu.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:26:23 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Definitely a newbie... References: <000701be703a$e20d7760$ebb2bfa8@johnmiwa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > John wrote: > > I currently have a PII 266 with Win95 and Solaris 2.6. Solaris is > not quite what I expected and would like to switch to freeBSD to > learn more about Unix. I have three questions: > > 1.) How do I get rid of the Sun boot manager that comes up every > time I turn on the machine? Mostlikely a DOS Fdisk /mbr (to replace the Master boot record) or reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager (booteasy.) If using booteasy be sure to select all the relevant partitions. > 2.) Will freeBSD run all the popular software that Linux runs? > Netscape, WordPerfect, and the like? I say linux because most of > the software is cheap! I hear that FreeBSD is supposed to run 99% of all Linux binaries. If it was compiled on Linux, you can most likely get it to run. > 3.) Is freeBSD a good flavor of Unix for a new computer science > student to use on a home computer to learn about Unix and > networking? I've learned quite a bit from it, and there is quite a bit of documentation lying around. Quite a bit is in the handbook and FAQ, and even more on other sites: http://www.freebsdrocks.com http://www.freebsdzine.org http://www.freebsddiary.com and don't forget the man pages. > I don't know, maybe these questions are in someones FAQ but I have > not found them? Thank you for any help you can offer...John. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu Where do you want to go today? http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message