From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 20: 3: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3137D37B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C5AA26A918; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:32:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:32:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: KESHAV TADIMETI Cc: freeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: new (and scared!!) Message-ID: <20010328133254.T92853@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010328035417.12424.qmail@nw173.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010328035417.12424.qmail@nw173.netaddress.usa.net>; from tadimetikeshav@usa.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:54:17AM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 28 March 2001 at 11:54:17 +0000, KESHAV TADIMETI wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to come to grips with FreeBSD. I have a FreeBSD (version > 2.2.5). (Here in SIngapore it is hard to find FreeBSD > distributions). Contact Harish Pillay at the LUGS (Linux User Group Singapore,http://www.lugs.org.sg/). He has a number of 4.2-RELEASE sets to give away. You shouldn't be messing with 2.2.5 any more. > I have the following questions: > 1. Is this reserved for experienced UNIX professionals - I mean the > installation? No. > FreeBSD requires that we supply the IRQ numbers. That's only for ISA cards. Nowadays you don't need it. > My BIOS has IRQ detection set to AUTO mode. Does anyone have a pdf > version of the 'HANDBOOK'. Check the web site. There's one somewhere. > For those who do not have an internet connection, it can be a > harrowing experience to install w/o a manual. You should have come to my tutorial last week at the Singapore Convention Centre :-) > 2. Performance-wise is it better than RedHat based clones? We believe so. > 3. If no,why choose FreeBSD at all? We also believe it's more reliable. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message