From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 08:46:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA10253 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA10246 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id IAA24733; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:46:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from pcconsole(192.168.100.254) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma024730; Wed, 27 Aug 97 08:46:39 -0700 Message-ID: <34044B43.67EA@PartsNow.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:44:03 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@PartsNow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: steelr@apk.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just a quick one promise!!! References: <3403E370.828300B2@apk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'll take a stab at this... The short answer is that it starts out a lot harder but once you get the hang of it you will discover that you can grow a lot farther faster than ever. Besides that, you will learn more about your PC. It sounds like the things you want to do are within the realm of FreeBSD specialties (surfing, IRC), so you'll do fine. In addition, there's all sorts of VRML and video capture stuff out there which compiles seamlessly on FreeBSD. It's also free for the downloading, so you won't have to spend any more money on software. You can spend money on disks and DRAM! Oh, yes, and you can absolutely blow holes in their 'bots and secret agents with your FreeBSD box, and they won't be able to stuff you. (Way kewl, dude, trust me!) You will need to dual-boot your system to allow both 95 and FreeBSD to coexist. You can either add a disk or repartition your existing one. Be prepared to spend a lot more than an hour studying the manuals, though. It will install easily on most PC's, but you want to be REALLY sure you understand the handbook before you begin the procedure, because you can totally trash your 95 partition if you do it wrong. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo