From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 21:15:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA12391 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from badboy.wisetech.com (badboy.wisetech.com [205.231.232.76]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA12386 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from badboy.wisetech.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by badboy.wisetech.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA10259; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:15:01 -0400 Message-ID: <31E47FC5.41C67EA6@wisetech.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:15:01 -0400 From: Rick Weldon Organization: Weldon Internet SEcurity Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Simonson CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to do. References: <31E42208.5836@bossnt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Simonson wrote: > > Hi, > My recent interest in the internet has grown in recent months. I > have no real background in UNIX, except when I download my homepage info > on the local server. I have purchased the FreeBSD from Walnut creek. Gotta start somewhere! Excellent choice that you picked FreeBSD. A *real* operating system. > In a month or so I am going to make an attempt at putting together a server > using FreeBSD as the OS. I am thinking of a Cyrix 6-86/motherboard. I've seen mixed reviews here on using the Cyrix chips. You might want to go with an intel board. If anyone differs feel free to pipe in. Last I checked there wasn't that big of a price difference. I believe someone said 100 bucks. Using intel might save you some trouble. If you are trying to learn Unix, you probably don't want to deal with hardware problems. > also think a Creative Labs soundcard, Seagate HD, and some floppie. I > have very limited experience with this. These will work. You didn't mention CDROM though. You have to be careful there. Only certain IDE types are supported. I use a Mitsumi 2 Speed. Not very fast, but it meets my needs. Check the HARDWARE file on the CDROM for a list of supported hardware types. > I do have a great interest though. That's what it takes. I hope you like to read manuals and have lots of patience as well :) I'm not very sure what you mean by a server. Do you mean a server for yourself (as in workstation) or where you would have customers using it? This would have a large impact on what hardware you buy. > I have added ram and a second HD to my existing system (486 > DX2). I am running WIN95 with little trouble. It is a learning > experience. When I get this up I would like to offer access to the net. > I am curious if there are any usergroups doing this? Am I choosing > equipt that is acceptable to run FreeBSD? >Any advice would be appreciated. If you are too busy I understand that too. > The 486 DX2 would make an excellent personal work station. It might also do well for a server depending on what you do with it. Again, it is hard to make recommendations since I'm not sure what you want to do with the box. -- | Rick Weldon -- WISE-Tech LLC | E-mail: rick@wisetech.com