Date: Mon, 02 Oct 95 18:26:00 EDT From: HOLTFORSTER Jason <jholtforst@shl.com> To: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <30706747@msmailgate>
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Hello, Please forgive me if my questions are obvious, stupid etc. I am new to the UNIX world. I would like to learn some of the basics of UNIX. I am interested in running UNIX on my PC at home. I have an AMD DX2/66 with 8MB RAM. I have a NEC IDE CDROM drive. I have Windows 3.1 installed - hence very little free disk space. I would like to know more about FreeBSD! I have a question regarding this section of the FreeBSD documentation: >Hardware Requirements: >Standard ISA, EISA, VL, or PCI bus based PC (386sx to Pentium class), >4 meg ram (8MB recommended.) You need a minimum of 60MB of disk space >for binary only system, and 700MB for everything. 700MB is a big chunk of anyone's HD! Can you give me a breakdown of how much HD space will be required for a bare-bones UNIX environment that I can use to learn a bit about UNIX in my spare time. Since I use Windows 3.1 at work this will still be my main OS, however I would like to learn how to write shell scripts, use VI etc etc. I understand that there are modules like TCP, SCSI, ISDN etc etc that I do not have to install to save me some HD space. Are there other 'UNIX on a PC' packages which are more suitable for me? Will Windows 3.1 (Windows 95) co-exist with FreeBSD. What is 'Rock Ridge CDROM support'? I would appreciate any suggestions you may have concerning FreeBSD. Thank you Jason
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