Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:24:33 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Matt Swort <mswort@jane.penn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981209112128.11684M-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19981208164424.0072f218@jane.penn.com>
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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Matt Swort wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a computer sciece major and am building my own PC's to make a little
> money. I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Do I make a dos partician with just the command.com and the CDROM
> drivers loaded out of the autoexec and config.sys?
Nah. You make a FreeBSD boot disk and load the system off the CDROM
(this is one of a few possible options).
> 2) Does FreeBSD come with a boot disk?
See above.
> 3) Does FreeBSD come with a "windows interface"
Yes. XFree86. Be warned that it will take you endless tweaking before
you get it "just-right".
> 4) can FreeBSD be networked to a Win98 machine directally?
Yes.
> 5) where can i obtain the proper driver diskettes for my Fast Ethernet card
> so that they work on the BSD system?
Unless you tell us what you've got, we can't tell you if it's
supported or not.
Jonathan Chen
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