From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 21:52:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8292314D7D for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA02628; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:51:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:51:30 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: preston Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am a lammer , But I want to run away from the evil bILL gATES and his evil empire ... HELP ME !!!! In-Reply-To: <000701bf4066$512feb40$655f1b26@preston> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lamer, so-spelled. It helps to include your messages in the body of the message instead of as an attachment, and use a carriage-return every 74 spaces or so, to prevent it from falling off the page. You can get the information you need about FreeBSD from the main web page, http://www.freebsd.org. Annelise On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, preston wrote: > I dont know much about my system I got it used from some dude @ the local community school . I know its a basic P-II, 450 mhz system . 128 mgs ram , and A number nine revalution 4 agp graphix card. I dont know anything about the what type the hard drive is and I really dont know much about how my O.S. works ( win,98) . What I do know is that I want a new one. I want to support the freebsd ! it sounds good to me and I like the concept I have heard about it . My q's (though probly answerd like 10x in your webpage ) is can I just download and install freebsd? ? will my screen look the same ? do I need a Owner's manuel ? I am not all that bright , but Im learning :) if you can recomed anything that can make this transition easy"r" please by all means tell me . otherwise I am going to hold my breath and dive in ! I will learn this one way or another ! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message