From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 14:26:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20467 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20462 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA02286; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:24:33 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:24:33 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Matt Swort cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19981208164424.0072f218@jane.penn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." - Gary Larson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message