Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 02:36:39 -0700 From: Tyler Schutjer <tschutj@xmission.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please help... Message-ID: <32E5DFA7.6BDD@xmission.com>
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I'm an average DOS/Windows user in the process of trying to pick up UNIX, and I'm DYING to put FreeBSD on my machine. I spent long hours trying to install from the boot floppy, but couldn't get it to work (I can't get past the dialing out to my ISP part), so I am thinking about purchasing the CD. I want to be able to select a partition from which to boot when I turn on my PC, and I'm thoroughly confused as to whether installing from a CD will achieve the same kind of configured disk as will the downloading methods. Basically, I want UNIX to EXIST ON MY HARD DRIVE, as though my PC were a workstation - I don't want to have to stick a CD in my machine every time I want to run FreeBSD. Now I have to confess a whole lot of ignorance with regards to UNIX and hardware stuff, but it seems to me from reading the documentation that this is what I would be doing - "mounting" the CD every UNIX session. Is that right? Or am I misunderstanding totally? Something else - I wanted to try to download a distribution from your web site, but couldn't figure out for the life of me which files to begin with, or where to put them. I was interested in the "X developer distribution" and am wondering which files correspond to that set. The other issue would be, I can save the files to C:, but so what? It's the section of my disk that Windows CAN'T see that needs the files, right? Assuming I downloaded all the files I needed to C:, how would I get them where they need to go - my FreeBSD partition? I am guessing there is some kind of DOS compatible "batch" file that moves the stuff over? I don't know.... Any info relevant to any of these questions that you folks could give me would be most appreciated. I would offer cash, but alas - I'm a grad student... Thanks tschutj@xmission.com or tds0050@wcslc.edu
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