From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 23:13:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58ACC16A403 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:13:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamlsd@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD6E643D49 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:13:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamlsd@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so4112573wxd for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=I9HU1UwZVo0+3T3VwE1zCX4dBr0MNY+AWey/Jfm3mVLfkFxMdNkY99WY6H3bGAuvP8xZ8vj8pd41/LVZDPfG7WQLEAcwMAyMMgwxbtr7ETqOu2S61ervg8FK9ejMGVCFnGuVN+NlJvBnBiQAgP66sfmu46g6SjbgDoLcAbNJMak= Received: by 10.70.109.4 with SMTP id h4mr21106752wxc; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?130.245.126.51? ( [130.245.126.51]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h38sm4849362wxd.2006.09.18.16.13.08; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:13:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <48b3645173fe278b0450a9a07d83025b@FreeBSD.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam Martin Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:13:07 -0400 To: "Edward and Nancy Powers" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Sender: Adam Martin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:13:10 -0000 On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:54, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: > I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to > run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this > system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I > do not want to replace Windows at this time. Installing FreeBSD (as a UNIX) for the first time is not that hard of a daunting task. In all beginner cases, it is recommended that beginners start with the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html The FreeBSD website also has very excellent documentation on how to install the system and how to use every aspect of it, for beginners thru experts, in the documentation section. http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html > My PC has: Pentium III Processor at 1GHz, 128MB RAM at 133 MHz, > Windows ME operating system. > What course of action do you recommend that I take? Most important is to have some way to backup and preserve your Windows data, or to resize your windows partition to make some room for FreeBSD. The FreeBSD base system CAN be installed in as little as a few hundred megabytes, but I would recommend a gigabyte or two, just to get used to the system, and to have some space to expand. This advice generally applies to other UNIX systems, and UNIX-Like systems. -- Adam David Alan Martin