Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 14:45:41 -0800 From: Katherina Law <law@deepthought.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "'Rudy Gireyev'" <rgireyev@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Newbie on FreeBSD installation. Message-ID: <AFBABE8FC2C7D0119A5300A0C95A22FE0C8B14@deepthought.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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-----Original Message----- From: Rudy Gireyev [SMTP:rgireyev@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 1997 9:41 AM To: Katherina Law; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie on FreeBSD installation. Installing FreeBSD on an IBM ThinkPad 560 is totally doable. You will need a PAO package, which I admitedly forget is where. Thank you for your quick response! What is a PAO package? What is the best way to partition it? That of course is up to you. If we were completely impartial then we would of course recommend 50/50 but since we are not we recommend giving FreeBSD as much room as possible :-) Although, you will need around 300M for nice text based install. 50/50 for Win95 and > FreeBSD? I didn't see the Megahertz card oin the compatiblity list, do > you think that is OK? Do you plan to use FreeBSD on a network? It will be nice to be able to get it on the network, even for the installation of it would be nice. When I tried to install it, there is a few of > (Confl) something similar to that, I am not sure about the wording now, > but does that mean conflict? I am new to FreeBSD, can you help me with > some advises? Hmmmm, this doesn't sound very clear. If you could send perhaps a more detailed description of what exactly you downloaded, steps you took to install and the messages you got. Otherwise, it's too hard to guess :-) I understand now as I am doing it, it was for me to remove the drives/devices that I don't have in one of the installation screen. I am been installing it all day long now, it's not as easy as it seems. Maybe I am not doing everything right. I tried to install it through ftp, and I happened to have an IBM pcmcia ethernet card that I can use for now. But it hangs a couple of time either half way through, or sometimes when it started. Quite a lot of work.. I am doing it now, maybe if it'd fail again, I've better copy everything to the DOS partition and install it from there... Thanks again!! Katherina Sent by Yahoo! Mail. Get your free e-mail at http://mail.yahoo.com
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