From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 18 19:18:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 525DA14E98 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 13331 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 1999 02:18:34 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 13310 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jul 1999 02:18:33 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 19 Jul 1999 02:18:33 -0000 Message-ID: <37928AFD.DBF9EC5A@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:18:37 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: A new soldier in the ranks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everyone, So I go over to a friend's house and he's got all of his computers running this OS called "FreeBSD". I do my trademark eyebrow raise and he hands me a set of CDs. 3.1-Release. We spent the afternoon trying to install it on my Windows 98 box. Got a second HD to put FreeBSD on and started hacking away. We didn't get too far, X doesn't like my video card (ATI Rage Fury) and there's no drivers for my sound card (SBLive). I'm not new to computers by a long shot, but I've never really touched unix beyond the shell accounts I had with ISPs of way back in the days before PPP and 14.4kbps modems. I've never tried running my own unix system, so it will be quite the learning experience I hope. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message